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Services in Celebration 



of the 



One Hundred and Twenty-fifth 
Anniversary 

of the Organization of the 

Congregational Church 

in Rutland, Vermont 




October Fifth to October Seventeenth 
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CONTENTS 

Page 

Program 1 

Anniversary' Da}- 5 

Sermon b\' Dr. Seaver 
Exercises in the Sunday School 
Organ Recital 

Fellowship Day 18 

Old Times and Old Friends 19 

Letters of Greeting 
Dr. Boardman's Letter 
Miss Aiken's Reminiscences 

Young People's Day 31 

The Pastor's Sermon 

Rally Day in the Sunday School 

Citizenshi]) Day 39 

Historical Statement 4-0 

Roll ol the Church -to 

Parish Directory 
Resident Members 
Xon- Resident Members 



NOTE 

A demand ior the preservation of the words spoken at 
the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rutland 
Church occasioned the printin*2: of this booklet. Within its 
covers will be found only those addreSvSes which were of 
sf)ecial local interest. It is with regret that Mr. Taft's and 
President Thomas's speeches have been omitted. Mr Johnson's 
wise and witty sayinirs defied transcription. 

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PROGRAM 



FOREWORD 

We, the members of this church and congregation, have planned 
for the celebration of our anniversary with the hope that it may quicken 
our sense of obligation for v/hat we have received in the past: that it 
may inspire us to worthy service now and in the years to come; and 
that it may help to strengthen the fellowship of all our churches. 

The names of the days which wo are to celebrate suggest the things 
which we most desire to eraphasizo. 

On "Anniversary Day" we shall look backward in reverent thanks- 
giving for the service which has been rendered in and through this 
church during the past century and a quarter. We would not live in the 
past but we pray that the past may live in us, for apart from us it 
cannot be made perfect. 

"Fellowship Day" is the symbol of our hope that the followers of 
Christ in this community and throughout the world may magnify the 
things of the spirit which they hold in common and may stand together 
as one Brotherhood in the service of their Lord, 

When we consider "Old Times and Old Friends" we are confident 
that the hearts of our people will be stirred by sacred memories, and 
that the church familj-ties which bind us all together, those of us who 
are present, and those who have entered "The Other Room," will be 
wonderfully strengthened. 

With the observance of "Young People's Day" we shall look toward 
the future in order to discern some of the opportunities which await our 
church and her leaders in the years to come. 

"Citizenship Day" stands for our belief that no man is a good 
Christian who if? not a god citizen. We would have our church a 
powerful force for the purifying of the life of the community and the 
nation. So on this last day of our celebration we shall emphasize our 
civic responsibilities. 

We welcome to our feast of commemoration all our former members 
and all our friends who honor us with their presence. We would have 
the spirit of fellowship all- inclusive. 

May the blessing of God be upon us and may His Spirit lead us 
forward into ever larger service and more Christlike life. 



ANNIVERSARY DAY 



Morning Worship with Commemorative Sermon 
Sunday, October 5th at 10:45 o'clock 



Kroeger 



Organ Prelude — Allegro 

Doxology 

Invocation and Lord's Prayer 

Anthem— "It is a good thing to give thanks" 

Responsive Reading— (Congregation standing) 

Gloria 

Scripture Lesson 

Hymn— "O God, our help in ages past" 

Prayer 

Response by the Choir— (Heads bowed) 

Offertory— "Gentle, holy Saviour" 

(Bass Solo— Mr. Stewart) 

Hymn— "The Son of God goes forth to war" 

Commemorative Sermon . The Reverend Norman Seaver, D. D. 

Hymn— "Lord of all being, tbron'd afar" .... No. 73 

Benediction 

Organ Postlude— March in O . Calkin 



Greene 
Psalm CXLV 



No. 78 



Charles Gounod 



No. 355 



ORGAN RECITAL 

By MR. HARRY COREY, Organist of the Church 
Sunday Afternoon at 4:30 o'clock 

1. March for a Church Festival ...... Best 

2. (a) Andantino in D flat ....... Lemare 

(b) Humoreske (by request) . . . . . Dvorak 

3. Toccata et Fuga in D minor . . . . . . Bach 

4. The Curfew Edward I. Horsman 

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, 
The plow^man homeward wends his w^eary way. 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me." 

5. Pilgrims' Chorus (by request) R. Wagner 

6. At Twilight Chas. A. Stebhins 

"Afar in the distance the evening star gleams, 
And dim mtisic drifts through the dusk of our dreams, 
While low murmur lute-strings, and soft sounds the sweep 
Of swaying tree-tops in the garden of sleep." 

7. Offertoire in A flat Edward M. Read 



FELLOWSHIP DAY 

Tuesday Evening. October 7th at 7:30 o. clock 

Organ Prelude— Eventide . . . . F. Flaxington Harker 

Doxology 

Invocation . . . The Reverend Edward P. Treat, Pittsford 

Scripture Lesson . The Reverend Franklin W. Irvin, Rutland 

Anthem — "The Lord is my rock" . . R. Huntington Woodman 

Prayer .... The Reverend Edwin P. Stevens, Rutland 

Hymn— "The Church's one foundation" . . No. 173 (1, 2, 4) 

Address — "The Present Challenge to the Vermont Churches" 

The Reverend John M. Thomas, D. D. 

President of Middleburj' College 

Hymn— "On our way rejoicing" No. 384 

Benediction . . The Reverend Frederick W. Raymond, Proctor 
Organ Postlude— March Triomphale Callaerts 



OLD TIMES AND OLD FRIENDS 

In the Chapel, Wednesday Evening, October 8th at 7:30 o'clock 
DEACON HENRY F. FIELD, Presiding 

Hymn— "Ein Feste Burg" Chorus and People 

Letters of Congratulation and Greeting 

Excerpts from old Church Records— Read by Deacon Geo. K.Montgomery 

Clerk of the Church 

Reminiscences of two Pastors — Dr. Walker and Mr. Mitchell 

The Reverend George N. Boardman, D. I). 
Hymn — "Let children hear the mighty deeds" . By the Chorus 
Memories of a Pastor's Daughter Miss Sophia H. Aiken 

Hymn— "I heard the voice of Jesus say" . . By the Cliorus 

(ArraiiKcd by J. Harrin l-*ii^;cls) 

Address— "A Child in the Parsonage" . Mr. Hurgcs .Johnson 

"Auld Lang Hyne" . . .... (>horuH and People 

Benediction 

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YOUNG PEOPLE'S DAY 

Sunday, October 12th, Morning Worship at 10:45 o'clock 

Organ Prelude— Processional March . . . Edgar B. Smith 

Doxology 

Invocation and Lord's Prayer 

Anthem— "Praise the Lord" .... 

Responsive Reading— (Congregation standing) 

Gloria 

Scripture Lesson 

Hymn— "All hail the power of Jesus' name" 

Prayer 

Response— (Heads bowed) 

Offertory 

Hymn— "The King of love my Shepherd is" 

Sermon — "Looking Forward" .... 

Hymn— "Forward! be our watchword" 

Benediction 

Organ Poatiude — Triumphal March 



J. Christopher Marks 
Selection 49 



No. 147 (1, 4, 5, 6) 



No. 332 
The Pastor 

No. 369 (1-3) 



Dudley Buck 



CITIZENSHIP DAY 

Friday Evening, October 17th at 7:30 o'clock 

Organ Prelude — Legende and Finale ..... Faulkes 
Anthem— "To Thee, O Country" . . . . . Eichberg 

Invocation By the Pastor 

Hymn— "My country! 'tis of thee" . . . . . No. 460 

Introductory Word Hon. John A. Mead 

Address . Hon. William H. Taft 

Hymn— "O beautiful, my country!" . . . . . No. 465 

Benediction .... The Reverend Norman Seaver, D. D. 

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REVEREND NORMAN SEAVER, D. D. 



ANNIVERSARY DAY 

The commemorative exercises began on October fifth, a 
beautiful Sunday, the exact date of anniversar}-, with an 
historical sermon by Reverend Norman Seaver, D. D. Colleague 
Pastor with Dr. Aiken from 1S60 to 1863 and Pastor for five 
subsequent years, Dr. Seaver knew the church and the town 
of half a centur^^ ago as intimately as his long residence in 
Rutland has enabled him to know both in more recent years. 

COMMEMORATIVE SERMON. 

Through the kindness of your pastor, I am allowed the 
privilege of opening these services of praise and thanksgiving 
to Almighty God for what He has wrought for one hundred 
and twenty-five years through faithful Christian servants of 
His in the uplifting, illuminating, and establishing of this com- 
munity. Your pastor is always doing kind things for me, and 
this is one of the kind things that he has done. 

It is, of course, with peculiar feelings that I stand here, 
where fifty-three vears ago this fall I preached my first sermon 
in this church, in the fall of 1S60. Hardly a person here toda\' 
was here then. I look along the galleries then filled ; I look 
along the pews; thev are not here, but their influence is still 
here. The church where they worshipped is still here ; in 
greater beaut}' and greater strength than fifty years ago this 
church still endures. Fift\' years! Haifa century I What a 
period of time I During that fifty years more has been done to 
uplift, to civilize, to regenerate, and redeem tlie world tlian in 
the three centuries that had gone before. 

Today we observe the one hundred and twenty-fifth anni- 
versary of the birth of this church. Wlicrc can I find— as we 
always want some motto or some portion of Holy Writ to 
guide us in our ideas, thoughts, and purposes — where can I 
find a better prelude than those words which your pastor read 

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in the thirty-second cha^Jter of Deuteronomy, the seventh verse? 
the very v^ords from which your former beloved pastor, now 
gone, preached to you some thirty-five years ago : "Remember 
the days of old, consider the years of many generations." 

The one hundred and twenty-filth anniversary of a church ! 
Have you thought— will you bear with me while I endeavor to 
think— on what that means? One hundred and twenty-five 
years ! Four generations, as formerly we counted the gener- 
ations of mankind. Four generations of a church. And what 
is a church ? The body, the collection of men and women, who 
desire, amid all the turmoil and all the pressure of daily life and 
bodily necessities, still to remember in humble worship and in 
fellowship and adoration the Great Father of all, from v/hom 
all things come. 

A hundred and twenty-five years ! It means that for those 
hundred and twenty-five years men and women, yea, and 
children, have met together in that fellowship that was 
instituted then. A hundred and twenty-five years ! It means 
that for four generations of men all the various relationships 
of life have been sanctified and elevated by the influence of this 
church. It means that here for four generations, young 
maidens and youths, men and women, have joined hands and 
have by the ministers of God, in accordance with his law, been 
pronounced one forevermore in the service and love of 
humanity and of God. A hundred and twenty -five years! It 
means that for these four generations the infants that God 
gave to us, his most precious gifts, souls come to us for our 
nurture and bringing up, — it means that they have been 
brought here into this church and consecrated to the service 
and glory of the Most High. 

A hundred and twenty-five years of church life I It means 
that through four generations of men the ministers from this 
place have gone to the homes of sickness and have held the 
hand of the invalid as his days of life were drawing to a close, 
and breathed a prayer for him, and whispered to him the 
message of Him who said : *'Let not your heart be troubled. 
* * * I go to prepare a place for you." A hundred and twenty- 



five 3'ears of church life means that over the graves of four 
generations have stood the ministers and officers of this 
church and read the lessons of life and the foretellings of 
immortality. A hundred and t\vent\'-five 3'ears of this blessed 
influence from the cradle to the grave. 

I say a hundred and t\Yent3'-five years and that toda^' we 
celebrate that anniversary- ; but this church is older than that. 
It is wonderful to trace history back to the original source of 
the church in our country'. Do 3'ou know when this church 
was founded ? Do \'ou know where was really its birth ? 
Look back three hundred years. Look back to 1620, and see 
upon the stormy- waves of the Atlantic a little vessel of onh- 
ninet}' tons coming from the Old World to the New. Who are 
its passengers? Whom does it bring to this country'? It 
brings English men and English women, those who, leaving 
old England, 3'et rejoiced in her glory; those who had contri- 
buted to that glory, and 3'et b3' the intolerance of the church 
and state had been denied the privilege of worshiping God 
according to their own conscience. And the3' had escaped, as 
it were, the noblest men of England ; fled to Holland and there 
sta3'ed fourteen vears while their children were growing up. 
The3' did not desire that English blood should be lost or inter- 
mingled with even the noble blood of Holland, and so they 
sought to find beneath the canop3' of Heaven a place where 
the3' could keep the freedom of the state and the true worship 
of God. So with all their goods they emlxirked upon that little 
vessel and after a storm v vo3'age, if I remember right, of some 
six weeks, thev, knowing perfectlv well that behind them the3' 
had left home, friends, government, countr3' ; knowing thev 
were about to fijcc unknown perils and pass through calami- 
tics, reached this shore. They had jjledged themselves to God 
and the3' now pledged themselves to one another. One of their 
number, a Mr. Bradford — an ancestor of 3'our present y)astor — 
wrote with his own hand bv the dim light of the cabin lamp a 
solemn contract, the first sentence of which I can never think 
of without the rising of emotion within mv soul that almost 
chokes my voice I'pon the stormy waves, knowing not what 



was before them in the new world . but expecting to discover a 
place where they could worship God, having entrusted them- 
selves to winds and waves and to Him who rules the winds and 
waves, they set their names to this solemn covenant, the first 
sentence of ^which reads: "Forasmuch as all great enterprises 
are attended with great dangers, they must therefore be met 
^th corresponding courages." In that single sentence ^^as 
foretold the whole future of America, the whole future of 
Christianity. Great enterprises ! Great difficulties ! Yes. and 
therefore "corresponding courages." That was the Pilgrim 
spirit, and that tells the future of America and of Americans 

And so they came, and in all their settlements the first 
thing was to establish a church. In the tov^n meetings, in the 
assembly of the freemen, the first duty was to establish a 
church. And so settlement after settlement was made all 
along our coast and into the interior. In 1634 Worshipful 
Master Gookin, an engineer and surveyor in old England who 
threw in his lot with the Pilgrims, ^was commissioned by the 
General Court to survey this new land on which they had set 
their feet and where they were building their homes. So he 
began ^^here the Merrimac River flows into Massachusetts 
Bay and went carefully along lest he should be destroyed by 
bands of marauding Indians. Thus he gradually worked up 
the river, and when he reached a point forty-five miles up the 
Merrimac River he completed his survey and returned to the 
General Court and said, presenting his plot of the land and the 
survey he had made, that he had surveyed the country as far 
as probably it would ever be settled — forty-five miles from 
Massachusetts Bay into the interior. 

But they soon spread farther than that; they spread to 
the Connecticut River, plantation after plantation, town after 
town, church after church. And I have often thought how 
surprised and delighted they must have been with that great 
Connecticut River; no river so full of all loveliness in old Eng- 
land ; a hundred miles from the sea, as the Connecticut River 
is where they saw it at Deerfield and Springfield. And here 
they settled, in northern Massachusetts and southern Vermont; 



but it took them a hundred and fifty \^ears before they reached 
what is now Rutland. You have proof of how during that 
hundred and fifty years the exiles from old England still had 
their attachment, their longing, their homesickness for the 
land of their fathers, and town after town and settlement after 
settlement which they colonized here were named after the 
towns in old England: Manchester and Sunderland and 
Clarendon and Brandon and Rutland and Leicester and Salis- 
bur3\ You take a map of old England today and look at the 
names of the towns and then look at a map of New England, 
and lo, the two correspond. Yes, we are one in blood, one in 
nation, and God grant we may be one in the advancement of 
the truth and of the true success and prosperity of the English 
race. 

There was a little settlement made here in Rutland, first at 
the falls in Center Rutland, called from the name of its pro- 
prietor as long ago as when I came here, Gookin's Falls. 
Almost the first thing that was done as soon as the little 
settlement was made, was to appoint a committee of towns- 
men to find a preacher of the gospel to serve them. In order 
that he might be free from all worldh^ cares and be assured of 
support for himself and his family, they voted — the little 
assembly of fourteen — the munificent sum of fifty pounds, 
lawful money, to be paid in pork and beef and potatoes, corn, 
wheat, lard, and wood. Benajah Roots was the first pastor, in 
1773, to the little church of fourteen members. 

The daughter of Benajah Roots married Abner Mead, 
whose father had settled in Center Rutland and built what was 
known as Mead's Mills. Therefore Benajah Roots, the first 
settled minister of Rutland, was the ancestor of our respected 
townsman, John Abner Mead, who is with us today and whose 
family has always been iflentified with the religions and civil 
affairs of Rutland for the last one Imndrcd and twenty-five 
years. 

Tradition says that the owner of the falls, Gookin, who 
also owned the land around it, did not a])provc of neighbors. 
He said he did not want settlers there whose hens would 



scratch in his gardens, and so he refused to sell land and the 
tide of colonization broke in two, one going to West Rutland, 
the other to East Rutland. Soon after, in 1784, the East 
Rutland people withdrew from the church at Center Rutland. 
The Center Rutland church was a log building situated a few 
rods north of Mead's mill. They came to East Rutland and 
there they settled and began at once to make provisions for a 
church, for this church. Twenty-seven members formed the 
church at Rutland. 

I may stop for a moment to tell you of what Rutland 
consisted at that time: a single street, the great highway 
between here and Canada, running where Main Street nov/ is. 
An old lady who lived here when I first came, a Mrs. Alvord, 
who lived in a house that is still standing, the house to which 
she was brought when a child only two years old, — although 
not a native of Vermont, yet she was brought here so young 
she remembered no other place, — this old lady nearly ninety 
years of age told me that when she was a child the whole west 
side of North Main Street was one unbroken pine forest reach- 
ing on to Pittsford, Brandon, and Burlington; and all of the 
houses w^ere on the east side of North Main Street until you 
got up into the neighborhood of the first stream of water, 
where there was an ancient grist mill, now in use; and there 
was built the first church of the Rutland society, whose 
members numbered tvirenty-seven. 

In 1790 that church was completed. We have no views of 
it, but I have been told by old men who remembered it that it 
was a square two-story building with a door in the center, 
with two rows of windows, no stoves or any apparatus for 
heating, and with a great front door so badly joined to the 
floor that, as the people sat in their pews in winter time, the 
snow would blow up the aisle and form eddies that the 
children would watch with delight during the service. To 
that church came, not as a pastor for he was not ordained, but 
as its supply for eight years. Reverend Samuel Williams, L.L.D., 
born in Massachusetts in 1743, graduated at the age of 
eighteen from Harvard College, settled in the town of Bradford, 

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Massachusetts, and in 1780 called to be the Professor of 
Theology and Natural History and Mathematics in Harvard 
College. He spent eight years there, and so profound was he 
in his study and culture that the University of Edinburgh, 
Scotland, which at that time had such relations with America 
that it would not be likely to confer degrees upon Americans, 
gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was also a member 
of many scientific societies here and in Europe. For eight 
years he was the acting pastor of this Rutland church in that 
old two-story wooden structure on North Main Street, occupy- 
ing the ground just south of the old burying-ground which is 
still there. 

When he resigned, then came the first ordained pastor of the 
church, the Reverend Heman Ball. Mr. Ball was a bachelor with 
no family, and he gave himself entirely to the life and culture of 
that little church of twenty-seven members. For twcnt3'-five 
j-ears he labored with us, until 1821, when very suddenly 
he died, while sitting in his chair talking with a friend. It was 
during his pastorate that there was an increase in the church 
membership. Originally it had been twenty-seven; it had 
dwindled during the interim when there was no settled pastor 
to twelve or fourteen ; but soon after Dr. Ball came they had 
what they used to call, and what we may well now call, a 
revival of religion. Some sixty were then added to this little 
church, and finally when, at the age of only fifty-seven, he died 
so suddenly, one hundred and thirty-nine souls had been atlded 
to the membership of that little church. 

It was during the latter part of his pastorate, in 1S19, 
when the church had outgrown entirely the little wooden 
building of its early days, after some thirty-four years of 
service, that a brick church was built, with a spire something 
after the stvle of the spires so many of which Sir Christopher 
Wren built after the great fire in London. This building was 
situated where Dr. Delehanty now lives, and his house contains 
some of the very bricks of that church. There stood the second 
church with its spire, not ver^- high, but still the highest of all 

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the buildings in Rutland, raised up towards the sky and 
silhouetted against the mountains. 

In 1821 the pastor died ; he was summoned to the mansion 
above. He was called by those who knew him, "Old Dr. Ball." 
His hair, flowing white, was parted and fell down upon his 
shoulders. He wore knee-breeches and long stockings and the 
waistcoat of those early times. Old Dr. Ball! Imagine my 
surprise when I came to look upon the date placed on his 
tombstone when his remains were taken from the old cemetery 
with reverential care and attention by Dr. Phillips, who never 
failed in any Christian duty, and carefully interred in our 
beautiful Evergreen Cemetery ,—j udge of my astonishment when 
I learned that he was just fifty-seven years old at the time of 
his death. 

Although so large a number had been added to the church, 
one hundred and thirty-nine during his pastorate, yet the con- 
dition of religion in Rutland was at a very low ebb. I am not 
now giving any impressions of a person who looked at it 
simply from a religious point of view, as a minister, but am 
quoting the very words of Governor Williams, who was Chief 
Justice of the state for a number of years and was twice 
Governor of Vermont, and who lived on North Main Street, — 
words in which he described the condition of Rutland in a 
conversation with Reverend Silas Aiken, who was afterwards 
pastor of this church. He says: "From my own personal 
knowledge, I feel confident in affirming that at the time of 
which I speak (1822) there was not a single lawyer from 
Middlebury to Bennington who was a member of any Christian 
church or was willing to be known openly as a friend of 
Christianity. At the time of which I speak the five taverns 
that were along the main streets of Rutland were filled with 
people on the Sabbath day, who came in from neighboring 
towns, as well as from Rutland itself, and thronged their 
porticos; and crowds gathered, such crowds as rum and infi- 
delity will a\\YSiys gather; and they sat and jeered as a few 
church members and their families passed along the main 
street to the little church at the north. The universal spirit 

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was not simpl^^ one of indiflference but of absolute enmity to 
religion and religious people." 

Those are the words of the Chief Justice of the state and 
Governor as well, a man of calm judgment, not an enthusiast 
or fanatic; and those were the conditions in Rutland in 1822. 

At that time the church gave a call to Reverend Charles 
Walker. Carh'le says, "When a real thinker appears in the 
world, then the world may well tremble." We may also say 
that when a really consecrated man comes into any commun- 
ity there is a new growth of truth and righteousness that is so 
marvelous that it transcends all power or effort of man to 
stay it ; so marvelous that the Eg^^ptians confessed before 
Moses, "It is the very hand and finger of the Almighty." 

Reverend Charles Walker was one of ten children, born in 
Woodstock, Connecticut, afterwards removing to Strafford, 
Vermont. The family of brothers and sisters was so large 
that it was necessary for him very early in life to go out and 
seek his fortune in the world. With a little old bandanna 
handkerchief, containing all his w^orldly possessions, he trav- 
eled by foot in order to save money all the way from Strafford 
to Woodstock, Connecticut, and there, through a friend of his 
father's, secured work in a woolen mill. There, so great was 
his industry and so inventive was his mind and so strong was 
his health of body and so wise his judgment, it was not very 
long before he became foreman and manager and partner in 
that woolen factory. 

One day there came a change. Before that he was always 
upright, but a change came over him on the twenty-first day 
of April, IS 15. This young man of twenty-five years wrote a 
covenant. After his death it was found among his papers; it 
had b:;en written fifty-four years before. This covenant or 
agreement read: "On the twenty-first day of April, 1815, on 
full consideration and serious reflection, I came to this reso- 
lution that whatever others do, I will serve the Lord. Accord- 
ingly, having set this day a!)art for a day of private fasting 
and prayer, I have thought proper to enter into solemn cove- 
nant with mv Almightv FatluT. This day. therefore, with 



deep solemnity, I surrender myself to Thee. I renounce all 
former dependencies, and desire to give Thee myself and all that 
I possess, the faculties of my mind and body, and all my 
worldly possessions; my time and my influence over others; to 
to be devoted to Thee, as long as Thou givest me life; with a 
humble resolution to continue Thine through time and eternity. 
^^ Signed and sealed in the presence of God and his 
holy angels —Charles Walker." 

There was no outward demonstration and the paper was 
never found until his death, but through all his life he was 
faithful to that covenant with God and God was faithful to 
him. 

So he came to this Rutland church in that low ebb of 
intellectual, moral, and religious life. There was no great or 
fine presence. There was a deep voice, capable of expressing 
intense emotion and affection. There was no great flight of 
imagination and no great originality of speech and no sort of 
sensationalism of language; not one particle of those about 
Charles Walker. He stood in the pulpit of the new church, 
simply telling the word of God, what he believed to be the 
the truth of God, and so telling it that those who heard him 
felt that he would suffer martyrdom before he would conceal 
that truth. Four years after he came here there was a revival 
of religion in which some sixty persons were added to the 
church. Five years afterwards, a hundred and twenty-nine, on 
one Sabbath, offered themselves as servants to the Most High ; 
and old men told me after I came here, with their eyes filled 
with tears, strong men all unused to weeping, told me of that 
glorious day when in that old brick church, as their names 
were read from the pulpit, down the main aisle and up the side 
aisles there came a hundred and sixty-eight persons, many of 
them heads of families, who then consecrated themselves to 
God. 

The bell rings and I cannot go further in this personal 
history. However, I wish to say that those who succeeded Dr. 
Walker carried on the work that he began. The third pastor 
of the church was Reverend William Mitchell, whose picture 

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YOU can see hanging in our lecture room ; a man of large 
presence, of warm heart. His store of wit made him a most 
desirable and interesting companion. His influence over others 
was not that of man but of the Spirit of God, and a hundred 
and thirt3'-nine persons were added to the church during his 
ministry. 

Then came Reverend Silas Aiken. I cannot speak now of 
him because others will do honor to his memor\' during the 
services of the week, but I will sa}'^ it was during his time that 
a new spirit came to Rutland. The railroad had touched it. 
The whole community' thrilled with new life and enterprise; 
new people were coming in ; new circumstances w^ere arising. 
The old brick church that had been a wonder forty j'ears be- 
fore, now became too small for the congregation, and then, by 
the wise counsel and wonderful advice and persuasive manner 
and absolute respect which were his, Dr. Silas Aiken built this 
church. It was not built with any tainted mone3'. I believe 
there was not one person who contributed whose wealth w^as 
estimated at over thirty thousand dollars. Most of the mone3' 
came from the hard-earned wages of farmers who had toiled in 
summer's heat and winter's cold and who brought their 
earnings to build a house for the worship of God. But I 
cannot dwell upon Dr. Aiken's work here. I can onl}^ sa)' of 
him what is said of Sir Christopher Wren's memorial in St. 
Paul's Church, London, which he built after the great fire. At 
the entrance is a tablet on which is his name, "Christopher 
Wren," and beneath, these words: "If you seek for his monu- 
ment, look around." And so I can sa^', if you seek for the 
monument of Silas Aiken, there is a beautiful shaft in the ceme- 
tery, made of granite, but if \'OU seek for a further monument, 
you may sit in this church and look around. This church to- 
day is a monument to Silas Aiken, the fourth pastor of the 
Rutland church. 

I cannot weary you wilh any further discourse, but there 
comes to me a scene of a summer afternoon, and I would take 
you with me and we will sit together on the pi.-jzza of the old 
Kcllev house across the Creek. Hefore us, as we sit there. 

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spreads out a beautiful scene: as we look to the east, the 
sloping meadow running down to the Creek ; beyond that is 
St. Peter's Church, rising majestically with its ecclesiastical 
structures around it; beyond, marts and stores; and then, 
still looking eastward, to the left is the tower of the Episcopal 
church; beyond that and farther up the hill is the French 
Catholic church with its two to\vers ; a little to the south of 
that is the Baptist church; and then is this church with its 
white spire rising up into the heavens. They are not different 
churches, O my friends, they are all one. All one! And as I 
looked that summer afternoon toward the close of the day, the 
sky became suddenly overcast ^th dark clouds laden vnth 
thunder and with rain, and soon the whole earth was darkened 
and the clouds hid mountain and spire and church and mart and 
river and field, and the air was filled with dust, leaves, twigs, 
and rain, and it seemed as though old chaos and night were to 
resume their reign. But soon, in the providence of God, in the 
northwest there was a wind, and then appeared a rift of blue 
sky and the mist and the clouds rolled up, and church and 
home and mountains came in view; and at the foot of the 
mountains, following close after the retreating storm was 
God's arch in rainbow, the symbol of his pity, his love, his 
mercy, and his power. And then the setting sun threw its 
light on all those spires and lit them up alike, and all of them 
pointed to the same blue heavens; all spoke of adoration, and 
over them all extended the arch, the bow of God's perfect 
loving mercy. And as I looked the sun was sinking below the 
horizon, and, as often happens when the dusk and mists of 
evening are drawing in, lo, from that setting sun streamed up 
in the western sky a golden glory. It flamed from the windows 
of the houses; it lit up all the spires; it illumined the hills and 
mountains; it extended far to the east to the peak of the 
highest mountain. And that golden glory filled all the earth, 
and Heaven seemed to come down to earth, and one glory, 
one supernal light was on it all and through it all. And 
Nature spoke to me, or rather God spoke to me through 
his work of Nature, and I seemed to know and seemed 

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to feel that above all strife, all words of fiction, above all 
the stress and storms of life, above the shadows, there will 
finally shine that setting light of God's perfect glor^^ ; that it 
shall tell of the complete harmony of the universe that shall 
make the earth vocal again with the song of the angels of nine- 
teen hundred years ago, that song from the heavens, "Peace 
on earth, good will to men, glorv to God in the highest !" 

And in that perfect harmony that finally shall fill the 
universe and flood it with golden light, shall be the justifi- 
cation of creation, the exalting of the Most High, and the 
verif3'ing of that benediction uttered so long, long ago, when 
out of chaos God called forth this universe in all its beauty* 
when all the sons of God shouted for joy and the stars of the 
morning sang together. As I think of these days of old and 
the works of former generations there comes to me the 
memory of that old French song sung by Canadian voyagcurs, 
as in their boats the}- sailed or rowed from the St. Lawrence 
through the lakes to see the wonders of the Chicago Exposi- 
tion. As they rowed and as they sailed, they sang like this: 

"I am going over there, over there, 
To see the beautiful city of God; 
And when I find what I seek over there, over there, 

I will return from afar, from afar, 
To tell of the wonder and glory of God." 

Anniversary Da}' in the Senior Sunday School marked the 
installation of a new superintendent, Mr. Wilbcrt Burditt. 
The Pastor, Mr. Willis Ross, acting superintendent through 
the previous weeks of the autumn session, and Mr. Burditt, all 
spoke briefly. Deacon Henry F. Field recalled in delightful and 
tender reminiscence men and women well known and loved in 
the Sunday School during the thirty-three years of his olhcial 
connection with it, from the days when as a boy of twenty he 
led the singing, to the final year of his own tenure of the oflicc. 

The sun sent long level rays through the open doors of the 
church when a large number of pef)plc gathered to enjoy Mr. 
Harry Corey's organ recital. The jK-aceful church, the gather, 
ing twilight, the noble and lovely music combined to ;.^i\ e an 
hour of deep and quiet pleasure. 

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FELLOWSHIP DAY 

On Tuesday, October seventh, the church emphasized 
neighborliness. Invitations v\^ere sent to all the churches of 
the city and to all Congregational churches in the county. 
Between the hours of four and six afternoon tea v^as served at 
the parsonage to out-of-town guests. At six the guests of the 
church and its officers sat down to supper in the church 
parlors. The informal postprandial exercises sounded in 
every cordial word the keynote of the day. Mr. Bradford 
called on Deacon Henry F. Field, who felicitously voiced the 
welcome of the home church. Reverend E. P. Stevens of the 
Methodist church in speaking for the churches of the city noted 
the modern accent on unity as something unheard a hundred 
and twenty-five years ago. Rev. W. A. Mclntire of Danby 
and Rev. Walter Thorpe of Wallingford responded for the 
churches of the county. 

President John M. Thomas in the address of the evening 
emphasized the close connection always existing between a 
strong country church and a strong rural population ; depicted 
the decline of the country church as discovered by a survey of 
counties in Vermont and other states ; and drove home to his 
hearers the imperative challenge which the facts present to the 
churches of the state to rally for the welfare of Vermont in a 
movement which shall invigorate all the activities and interests 
of a community. 



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OLD TIMES AND OLD FRIENDS 

On Wednesday evening, October eighth, the church was at 
home with its memories. A responsive audience crowded the 
chapel and was transformed, tinder the inimitable touch of the 
presiding officer, Deacon Henry F. Field, into a great church- 
family gathered about the glowing hearth-fire. Relics were 
brought forth: the capstone of the second "meeting-house"; 
the first Bible used in the Otter Creek valle3', then the property 
of its earliest settler, James Mead. The singing was led by a 
chorus of former choir members who rendered at intervals old- 
time h\'mns and music composed by earlier organists and 
choir-masters. Messages of felicitation were received from 
other churches and from absent members. Miss Bessie M. Otis 
read letters of greeting from Mr. Spence, pastor of the church 
from 1906 to 1913, and from Mr. Grant and Mr. Thorp, 
assistants under Dr. I'hillips. 

First Church, Oberlin, Ohio 
October 2nd, 1913 
To the Congregntionnl Church, Rutland, Vermont. 

Grehiting : — I greatlv regret that I am not i)crmittc(l to 
attend the exercises in honor of \'our one hundred twenty-fifth 
anniversary-. I can only send you this greeting and assure you 
that I am with you in thought if not in person For it was 
given me to enter into 3'our life and share your work for a 
little time, receiving influences that will enrich heart and mind 
as long as life sliall last. It is with a profound sense of grati- 
tude that I claim my place with you as you look back over the 
years. For the benefits you have had, have been mine. The 
heritage over which you rejoice, have I not been ])artaker in it? 
Is it not meet and riiiht that I too should be tliankful to the 
Heavenly F'ather for the way in whicli he has led and sheltered 
you as a church? 

IvCt us then be glad together that the "White Church on 
the Hill" has stood for so many years a faithful witness, that 

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however much its light may have wavered in intensity it has 
alwaj^s been shining, that here some of the noblest souls on 
earth have given in fine consecration their best in thought, 
v^ord, and deed to bless their fellow men and advance the 
kingdom of God, that this sacred spot has been the threshold 
across which many, many lives have entered into the New Life 
in Christ Jesus, that out from this place have gone steadily 
forces that have uplifted the community all about and even 
gone to the uttermost parts of the world with their healing 
ministry. 

And may it be that a church that has been so signally 
blessed shall continue to bear witness to the truth with un- 
failing devotion and by its unselfish service for humanity, its 
loyalty to the ideals of the Master, its manifest unity in 
brotherly love, win its way to still higher levels of prosperity 
and pov^er. Wishing you grace, mercy, and peace, I am, 

Faithfully yours, 

William H. Spence 



First Congregational Church, Elyria, Ohio 

September 30th, 1913 

It is pleasant, indeed, to know that a greeting from me is 
desired for your anniversary occasion. It would be one of the 
greatest of pleasures could I be present in person and take the 
hand of many an old friend of the days when I served the 
Rutland Church as assistant to Dr. Phillips. You need no 
assurance of the value that I place upon that association. 
No 3^oung man beginning his life work as a minister could 
desire a senior pastor more considerate, or a friend more loyal, 
or an example of the Christian pastor more devoted and 
accomplished than Dr. Phillips. Equally grateful are my 
memories of the church itself; of the generous hearing that 
they gave me from the pews, and of our cordial relations as 
v^^e met in home and social circle. A very prominent place the 
Rutland Church has, and always will have, in my affection 
and honor. I send most hearty felicitations upon this anniver- 
sary occasion. 

I venture to say that the church, though venerable in 
years, was never more ^^outhful in vigor and hopeful in out- 
look than at the present time. Most reassuring words 
reached me of the happy relation consummated between the 

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church and Mr. and Mrs. Bradford. I do not have the privi- 
lege of knowing them, but I am very confident that they are 
well worth knowing and that you are finding this out all the 
time. Yours very sincereh', 

John H. Grant 

Pilgrim Congregational Church, Duluth, Minn. 

October 4th, 1913 
The Congregational Church, Rutland, Vermont. 

Dear Friends: — There are three persons under this roof 
who wish to join in a word of greeting to the dear old church 
at this time of your anniversary. One is Mr. Clark L. Long, 
among tlie oldest members, who cherishes grateful memories of 
a succession of eminent and beloved pastors, and who regrets 
that his visit in the West prevents him from being with you. 
Another is m^- wife, with whom it was my great good fortune 
to become acquainted during my brief period of service in your 
church as pastor's assistant under Dr. Phillips. It was a most 
delightful and valuable 3^ear, spent under the genial, wise coun- 
sels of that remarkable pastor whose memory is still fragrant 
in your midst. I shall always be profoundly grateful to God 
for the many kindnesses shown me during those early days of 
my ministry, and for the vision of the Church Beautiful 
afforded me as I went in and out among 3'ou and came to 
know the wonderful fellowship which you enjoy. 

We rejoice in the tidings that under the new pastor the old 
church is indeed renewing her strength. May many happy 
fruitful 3'ears be yours. FaithfulU', 

Charles N. Thorp 

The clerk of the church, Deacon George K. Montgomery, 
culled from the old records amusing entries relating to church 
discipline. A letter written by Reverend George N. Boardman, 
D. D., of Pittsford, detailing his memories of Dr. Walker and 
Mr. Mitchell, was read by Mrs. A. S. Cramton. 

DR. H().\RI).M.\N'S letter 

I know but little of the Rutland Church by ])ersonal obser- 
vation. 1 have preachefi in the present edifice a few times, and 
perhaps as many or more times in the former houseof worship. 

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But I have no recollection of these events except of the large 
and attractive audiences that appeared before me. M}^ father- 
in-law, Rev. Charles Walker, D. D , v^as the pastor for ten 
years from 1823, but was not in the habit of speaking of his 
work there after I knew him. At that time the relations be- 
tween the church and the pastor were evidently very happy. 
The warm, affectionate earnestness of the new minister was 
somewhat in contrast with the methods of his predecessor and 
he at once won the hearts of his people. Deacon Barney said 
the first years of his pastorate were the most effective and 
fruitful he had ever known in church work. He was compelled 
to resign, because of illness, but life-long friendships were formed 
by his intercourse with the people. The names Page, Hodges, 
Barrett, Daniels, and others, were household words with the 
Walker family. 

I had a slight acquaintance with the successor of Dr. 
Walker, the Rev. William Mitchell, after he had given up 
pastoral work and become an agent of the Colonization 
Society. I heard him preach occasionally v^hile he was a 
pastor, and his reputation was well established, known to all 
interested in church affairs. He was spoken of as a strong- 
minded man. He was more than an ordinary sermonizer, was 
an impressive speaker in the pulpit, but lacked oratorical 
grace and a cultivated, trained enunciation. He was also devoid 
of professional air both in the pulpit and out of it. His 
utterances, however, were weighty; his vigorous sentences 
"were remembered ; his tones and cadences showed that he was 
giving his hearers his own honest and sincere convictions. 

In theology and upon all popular questions he was con- 
servative. He did not countenance innovations or improved 
religious doctrines. He was sternly opposed to extreme 
revivalistic measures. When Mr. Burchard was producing a 
good deal of commotion in the Vermont churches, he told his 
people that they could invite him to their church if thej^ chose, 
but that the pulpit had tw^o doors ; if Burchard went in at one, 
he should go out at the other. Some of his own young people 
went, with his assent, to hear the noted evangelist in a neigh- 
boring church. He made some inquiries after their return, and 
said that the best that could be reported of them w^as that 
they did not fall from grace. 

Mr. Mitchell had abundant humor. It w^as said that in 
conversation he could drav^ upon a large fund of anecdote. 
Certainly a subtle atmosphere of pleasantry, perhaps of irony, 
^svas often obvious in his comments and criticisms. The same 

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at times probably found its \va_v into the pulpit. I saw a sly 
wink of the eye, when in a turn in his sermon on the text, "No 
good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprighth'," 
he said, "I must not leave the matter here for fear that you will 
all walk upri2:hth'." Speaking of some one's positive assertions 
on a doubtful question, he quoted words thathad pleased him: 
"Any one who is so downright ought to be ver\^ upright." 

With all his largeness of body and mind he must have had 
a delicate sensibilit3'. He published in the Vermont Chronicle 
a series of articles entitled, "My Mother's Rings." I do not 
suppose I rend them, but I remember one of the rings, that 
made by the V)ottom of a teacup on the table-cloth, a teacup 
set on the table while one drank from a saucer. The papers 
were a treatise on the proprieties of social life. Thev caused 
some amusement, seemed to some like the work of Hercules 
handling the distaff. 

This very imperfect sketch of Mr. Mitchell does not claim 
to be of special value, it consists simply of fragmentary recol- 
lections. His prolonged pastorate is his highest commenda- 
tion. Only an able preacher could have held the Rutland 
pulpit thirteen years. It may be doubted whether any admin- 
istration left a more distinct impression than his. 

As he has so often done at annual meetings of the church, 
once more it became the privilege of the presiding officer to 
read the words of the church historian. Thus Mr. Field 
gractfull_v presented the recollections of a pastor's daughter 
bj Miss Sophia H. Aiken. 

REMINISCENCES OF A DAUGHTER OF THE OLD PARSONAGE 

I was brought to the parsonage as a baby in arms and 
thus all my life it has been practically my only home. I think 
my father's predecessor, the Reverend William Mitchell, was 
the first minister to occupy it. It was conveniently situated 
in reference to the church, which stood on the ground now 
occupied by the rcsiflence of Dr. Delehanty, that was built out 
of the bricks of the church. It is too bad that no one thought 
to have a picture of the church taken. So far as I know, none 
exists. 

As I remem1)er, it was a simple red brick building with a 
white spire. Tiicre were galleries on three sides and a pipe 

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organ in the rear gallery. The windows had blinds. I remem- 
ber particularly the one back of the pulpit. It was always 
closed and looked rather untidy in its latter days. Two large 
wood stoves in the rear of the room furnished heat, from which 
long stove pipes ran the entire length of the building. It may 
have been these that accounted for a singular odor when the 
building was closed— not unpleasant, but peculiar. I have 
never smelled it since, except in one instance. In the pulpit 
was a haircloth sofa. Runners of carpet of neutral tint were 
in the aisles. The pews were a step up from the floor and had 
doors which buttoned. I longed with unutterable longing for 
the privilege of being the last one to go in and button the 
door, but I do not recall that the joy and honor w^ere ever 
mine. 

My church-going days began so early that I can never 
remember being without them, and in spite of what people of 
the present day would call rather unattractive surroundings 
and a very plain service, they were a joy. Wearing one's Sun- 
day best and seeing a good many nice people means something 
to a child, especially when father and mother speak and act as 
if there Tvere something in the air different from other days, 
I entirely agree with the lines 

" *A vanished day?' you say; and yet 
Fond memory's tears bedew it; 
For in my old New England home, 
A child, how well I knew it! 

It colored all my early thoughts, 

My life was built upon it; 
I always said, 'My Sunday gown,' 

'My go-to-meeting bonnet.' 

Mere common, bustling work-a-days 

Were Saturday and Monday; 
But oh, my very best belonged 

To that old-fashioned Sunday." 

The hymn-book we used was ''Watts and Select." Many 
hymns that we love and cherish today had not been written, 

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yet even as a child I could feel the grandeur of words like these, 

"Our God, our help in ages past, 
Our hope for years to come, 
Our shelter from the stormy blast. 
And our eternal home." 

This book was exchanged for "The Sabbath H3'mn Book" 
shortly before we occupied our present church building, in 
which were many of the beautiful hymns which are still in use. 

The Sunday School was held in the church at the close of 
the morning service. Before my day Deacon James Barrett 
was superintendent. When I entered as a scholar Deacon 
Bowman had taken his place. My first teacher, I am proud 
and thankful to sa}', still blesses us with her presence — our 
dear Miss Electa Farmer. 

The chapel stood on West Street, next to the building now 
used as a garment factory. There a Sunday evening prayer 
meeting was held, in addition to the two preaching services of 
the da}', and there Friday afternoon and Saturday evening 
meetings were also held. I used to go to the former with my 
mother, and found solace and pleasure in the large missionary 
maps hung around the room. When our present church was 
built the chapel was moved to its rear where it stood till 1873, 
when the chapel we now have took its place, to be again 
changed and remodeled at the time of the thorough transform- 
ation of the church in 1891. 

One important event that marked my father's ministry 
was the ordination in the Main Street church of my brother 
and two other 3'oung men, Reverend George C. Knapp and 
Reverend C. C. Torrey, as foreign missionaries. The last- 
named has just been called to his reward; the others died 
fifteen or twent}' years ago. My own memories of the occa- 
sion are very indistinct, if indeed they are memories at rdl, but 
the event itself was something I was never allowed to forget. 

The life in our home was systematic ««nd (juietly busy, with 
no appearance of hurry or bustle. Yet I remember that it all 
centred around the church and its work; too much so for the 

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physical well-being of the pastor. Sometimes when he took 
his hurried Sunday noon lunch he ate as one in a dream, his 
lips moving, his thoughts far away, while we all maintained 
perfect quiet till he excused himself and retired to his study. 
Often some of the feeble ladies of the congregation \\^ho lived 
at a distance shared this simple meal at the parsonage between 
the morning and afternoon services, the last-named of which 
v^as held at a quarter past one in winter and half-past one in 
summer. Then came dinner and the rest of the afternoon 
spent in reading, with hymn-singing at t^wilight. I can never 
forget the atmosphere of peace that enfolded us. 

I remember the lessons of loyalty we were taught ; loyalty 
to both the church and the "cloth." No criticism of any other 
minister was allowed in our home. When a young man came 
to share my father's cares and duties the same generous treat- 
ment was accorded to him, treatment which he repaid with a 
son's love and devotion. My mother was in every sense my 
father's helpmeet. The cares of the parish were on her heart 
also. In joy and sorrow she went among the people and they 
realized that in her they had a sympathetic friend. After my 
father's death, when some one had spoken to her in criticism 
of something, saying, "It would not have been so in Dr. 
Aiken's day," her eyes blazed in telling of it, and she exclaimed, 
"I wonder if that man thought that was the way to curry 
favor with me!" 

I greatly enjoyed the parsonage weddings at which I was 
generally present. No licenses were required in those days and 
the minister who officiated was responsible for their propriety 
and legality. On the morning after one of them a man came 
to my father in a towering rage saying, "Last night you mar- 
ried my daughter, and she is only fourteen years old!" "She 
said she was eighteen," said father, "and was dressed to look 
as if she were. Moreover, she said her parents were entirely 
willing. I am sorry for you, sir, that you have so untruthful 
a daughter!" Later in the day a lawyer friend of father's ad- 
vised him to find the man and settle with him for ten dollars 
if he could, for unless he did a suit might be brought which 



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would cost him six times as much. Father took the advice 
and by the payment of ten dollars the man's wounded feelings 
were healed. But father thought it rather an expensive wed- 
ding for bim ! 

Another interesting feature of our life that I recall was the 
occasional exchanges with neighboring ministers, whom we 
learned in this way to know. I remember hearing m3^ mother 
say that during most of my father's pastorate the churches of 
our county were supplied by men of unusual ability. Without 
discriminating, I want to say a word about m\' remembrance 
of Dr. Charles Walker of Pittsford, as he was formerly- a pastor 
of our church and his name has been mentioned during these 
anniversary exercises with love and esteem. I wish I could 
portray him personally as I remember him. The portrait that 
hangs in our parlor does not do him justice. His head was 
large and round, and entirely bald except for some snow-white 
hair at the back. He had the pink and white complexion of 
an infant. His face was most benignant and was irradiated 
by a beautiful smile that seemed alwa^^s on the verge of break- 
ing out even when it was not actually visible. I loved him 
dearly and was alwa3's glad when an exchange brought him 
to our home over Sunday, The little asthmatic wheeze that 
he had seemed a part of him and made him unique and all the 
more attractive to me. It seemed to my childish imagination 
as if he was like Abraham, the Friend of God. 

I used to find great delight in making parish calls with my 
father and mother. Seated on a little stool at their feet, with 
my doll in my lap, I rode many a mile to farm houses that 
grew familiar, where my parents were honored guests. I wish 
I could picture for you one of them on the crest of Cheney Hill 
where three old ladies, sisters, lived. They wore white caj^s 
and shoulder-capes like their dresses, and as I look back upon 
them they seem like a kind of fairy godmother. One of them 
was the widow of Major Cheney who built the brick church in 
1819. She could see no need of any other building and ex- 
pressed great wonder that our peoplecould leave such a church 
to build one "down in that swamp," asshcdesignated our pres- 

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ent location ! When later her mind and memory had so failed 
that she could not recognize my father, he would bring himself 
to her remembrance by saying, **I am Mr. Aiken, who preaches 
down in the swamp," and immediately her face would light up 
and she would understand. The sitting-room in that house, 
which in its day had been called a tavern and was a half-way 
house for travelers on the stage road to Boston, had a settee 
with rockers and an alcove for the bed. Grandma Cheney, as 
I was taught to call her, would take me into the old-fashioned 
garden in the summer and make me a big nosegay containing 
every flower and sweet herb that the garden afforded. If it 
was winter she would bring out maple sugar for my delecta- 
tion, every once in a while laying her hand on my head and 
saying with an inflection that I can remember but can not 
transcribe, '^Little dearV^ 

I wonder if, when I see those three dear old ladies again in 
the by and by, they will look to me as they did in those days of 
my childhood. Who can tell ? 

Perhaps the theology of that day was sterner than ours, 
perhaps there was less said of love and more of law and duty, 
yet sturdy and upright men and noble, conscientious women 
were reared on this strong food and have gone before us into 
the heavens to wait for us, without whom they shall not be 
made perfect. 

The last thing that my father would desire or expect me 
to do would be to rehearse the things he accomplished during 
his fourteen years' ministry in this church, three of which 
were shared with another. Humility was one of his chief char- 
acteristics. But I must speak of the great revival of 1857-8, 
when eighty-five were gathered into the church, as well as the 
constant and unobtrusive seed-sowing and harvesting of the 
other years. His ministry was blessed and fruitful and his ser- 
vice for this people was a constant joy. After his relations 
wth the church were severed he lived on in the Old Parsonage, 
the gift of the people to him, supplying near-by pulpits that 
chanced to be vacant, often without remuneration. Then for 

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the first time he was at leisure to conduct a Bible class of men 
and women, about fort}' in number. 

His last years were very happy ones, and he was appar- 
ently vigorous, bearing no marks of age, erect as ever, with 
hair only moderately grey, when a sunstroke broke down the 
constitution enfeebled years before by overwork, and heart- 
disease brought the end before he had completed seventy 3'ears. 
I shall never forget the sense of uplift and triumph that came 
to us as we stood by his open grave, when his former colleague, 
who officiated by his request, lifted his hand and repeated the 
words: **I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a 
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, 
shall give me at that da}' : and not to me onl}', but unto all 
them also that love his appearing." 

In this presence, at this hour, we bow before our fathers' 
God, and the 3'ears seem but as a tale that is told. 

"Their joy unto their Lord we bring, 

Their song to U3 descendeth ; 
The Spirit who in them did sing 

To us His music lendeth. 
His song in them, in us, is one; 
We raise it high, we send it on, 

The song that never endeth." 

Perhaps this little sketch has been too personal; yet I feel 
I could not write it without paying my love and respect to 
those who presided over the Old Parsonage and ministered to 
the people in spiritual things. 

I thank 3'ou forall theresponse 3'ougave to my father's and 
mother's work here; for the love you gave to my sister and 
me in the years when we found our greatest pleasure in your 
service and com{)anionship; and for the tender remembrances 
you now show to me, the last one left of that dear home. If 1 
have said too much, you will pardon it, knowing that it is the 
tribute of "A Daughter of the Old Parsonage." 

Rutland, October 8, 1013. 

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other pastorates passed in review before the presiding 
officer's memory. He could but touch upon them, recalling an 
incident or two of Dr. Seaver's and Dr. Johnson's service ; of 
Dr. Phillips's modesty and quiet generosity. Mr. Field read 
from a letter descriptive of ''a most delightful bit of home 
missionary work once done by the Rutland Church." 

'*In 1892 there was living in the county an aged minister 
who had retired from active service. Dr. Phillips conceived 
the idea of helping this brother by sending him one hundred 
dollars on his eighty-seventh birthday. This was done and a 
similar sum was sent each succeeding anniversary for a period 
of ten years. The money was so quietly collected that the 
church as a body never had knowledge of this gracious bene, 
volence. Sometimes Dr. Phillips gave the best part of a day 
from his busy life to present the gift in person. If this were not 
possible, he sent it, accompanied by a letter so happily worded 
that the recipient always exclaimed upon reading it, 'That is 
worth more than the gold !'" 

In his introduction of Mr. Burges Johnson, the speaker of 
the evening, Mr. Field bespoke the help of a boy. He was 
Master Theodore Roberts, who recited ''Wisdom" from 
Mr, Johnson's "Rhymes of Little Boys." For his father's 
sake and for his own, the "child of the parsonage" of thirty 
years ago found a warm welcome. Mr. Johnson spoke of 
Yankee traits, mingling humor with seriousness, wit v^ith in- 
sight, and often driving home his point with a poem. Mr. 
Johnson's presence added the perfect touch to an evening which 
was the most intimate of all the services of commemoration. 



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YOUNG PEOPLE^S DAY 

As on the first da}- of celebration Dr. Seaver, former pastor 
of the church, turned the thoughts of the people backward in 
reminiscence, so on the following Sunda\' Reverend Arthur H. 
Bradford, the present pastor, turned them forward in antici- 
pation of redoubled service. 

THE pastor's sermon 

"looking forward" 

Jeremiah 42:3— "The Lord * * * shew us the way wherein we should 
walk, and the thing that we should do." 

The makers of our program have named this Sunday 
"Young People's Da3'". I shall take the liberty' of defining the 
title in a way which I know was not thought of w^hen the pro- 
gram was prepared. The original intention was to make this 
a kind of Children's Da3'. We shall carry out that idea in the 
Sunday School where w^e hope that many of the members of 
the congregation will help us in our annual rall3^ For this 
morning, however, I want to include among the "Young 
People" all the friends of our church who possess the forward- 
reaching spirit of \'Outh. To such a group of "Young People" 
there belong some of our members who can remember "as 
many as eight of the ten ministers who have served this church 
during the past centur}- and a quarter"; and there belong to 
it. also, some bo\'s and girls who will take the principal parts 
in an anniversary celebration twent3'-five 3'ears hence. So let 
the da3' belong to all who are growing in spirit themselves and 
are eager to hcljj tlieir church to grow even more in the 3'ears 
to come than she has in the years which are gone. On these 
grounds I hope we may l)e justified in thinking of today as 
"All I'eople's Day." 

The words of our text are a fitting prayer for a forward- 
looking pco])]e. By making them our own we may ex{)ress 

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our sense of dependence on the Living God who has led us in 
the past ; and we may also pray for his continued guidance in 
the way wherein we should walk and to the things that we 
should do. 

The spirit of such a prayer has been manifest in all our 
anniversary exercises. Our remembering has been a realizing 
of divine leadership. Not one of the services of the past week 
has lacked the note of reverent consecration and earnest desire 
for the same Heavenly Guidance in the years to come. 

Because this has been the spirit of our anniversary we have 
had experiences, or, rather, we are in the midst of experiences 
akin to those of the disciples of Jesus on the Mount of Trans- 
figuration. In ^svhat we have done and felt we find parallels 
for much that they did and felt. We read of their climbing up 
above the plains where their daily life was spent. Last Sun- 
day we were lifted to just such a high place of vision by the 
v^onderful message, so vibrant with reverent remembrance and 
prophetic vision, brought to us by Doctor Seaver. The disci- 
ples realized in some mysterious way the presence of those 
who had led their people in former times. In like manner we 
have had real communion with those v^ho have served and 
Tvorshipped in this church from the time it was organized. 
After our evening devoted to "Old Times and Old Friends" I 
heard a comparative new-comer to the church say, "It seems 
as if we had known them all." Even now this church building 
is filled with unseen congregations and this pulpit is blessed 
v^ith the presence of many ministering spirits. Some of you, 
I know, have the vision to see their faces ; and in your ears 
their voices are sounding. 

While the disciples were on the Mount, suddenly, we are 
told, a cloud gathered about them and they heard a Voice 
bidding them give heed to their Leader whom they now saw 
standing alone. Finally he guided them down to the plains to 
perform helpful deeds where there was great need. Surely we, 
too, have heard a Voice as we have been celebrating this anni- 
versary. It bids us look to the Leader who has brought us 
thus far in our history and summons us to follow him. If our 

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spiritual vision is clear we may see him as the disciples did, 
pointing the way to the plains of human need where our ser- 
vice is required. 

Thus standing toda}' on our Mount of Vision we may con- 
fidenth' utter the prayer of our text that He who has led us 
hitherto should now show us the way wherein we should walk 
and the things that we should do. The wa}^ is old ; the things, 
man^' of them at least, are new. 

The Way wherein we should walk as a church and as indi- 
viduals is as old as human life. From the heights whereon we 
now stand we ma}' look back over the \Va\' and perhaps catch 
glimpses of the faces of those who have followed it through 
the ages. We ma}' see the leaders of our church and with them 
a host who have never been known as leaders at all but have 
the same light in their faces as they walk in the Way Wt 
ma}' look back farbe3'ondthe time of the forming of our fellow- 
ship and see the figures of pilgrims and saints and humble 
folk whose names have been forgotten. Afar in the distance 
we may behold, in the very center of the Wa}-, a hill with 
three crosses upon its summit. The light which shines in the 
faces of all who walk in the Way shines brightest on the 
middle cross which crowns that hill. But it shines farther 
still It reaches back to the m3'Sterious shadow in which the 
beginnings of human life are enshrouded. For as long as men 
have lived together on the earth some of them have found the 
Way, though often the}' have fiiltered therein and again and 
again have stumbled and fallen. Among them are some who 
are strong and many who are weak of body and simple of 
mind. The one light shines in all their faces while on either 
side of them there lies deep shadow. The Way is narrow and 
few are they who have found it, compared to the multitudes 
who have never gained it or have entered it only to turn aside 
to easier paths. 

The Way is the Way of the Cross. All who walk therein 
have Ijeen willing, and glad, to sutler in order to serve the good 
causes to which they have been loyal. Some have met with 
crosses while faithfully serving the small circles of family or 

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friends. Some have undergone hardship for churches like this 
or for tribe or nation. Many, like the Master of us all, have 
died in order to help forward the cause of justice and good 
will, the kingdom of God, on the earth. 

Today, as we look forward, we may be sure that we are 
called to walk in this ancient Way of the Cross. Because 
others have followed it w^e now stand on the heights. Before 
us it winds into the unknown future. It may lead to suffering 
and much hardship but no other path appears, when we pray 
the God of our Fathers to show us the v^ay wherein we 
should walk. 

What does this mean for us as a church ? It means that we 
are here not to be ministered unto but to minister. We are in 
the midst of human institutions as one that serveth. We are 
the servant of this community. So we are to beautify our 
building and strengthen our fellowship in every possible way, 
but never for our own glory: always for the sake of winning 
more souls that they too may walk in the Way of the Cross 
and rejoice therein. In short, we are to enrich our church life 
in every way that we can, in order to devote the best of which 
we are capable to the cause of Christ to which we have 
pledged our loyalty. If the need should ever arise, we are to be 
ready to lose all for the sake of the cause. 

While few of us, perhaps, would hesitate to accept this 
ideal for our church, many of us may fail to realize its signifi- 
cance for us as individuals. If it be our church ideal, it imposes 
a test on every one w^ho has a share in the church life. Here is 
the test : Am I helping this church to walk in the Way of the 
Cross ? Am I helping her to be an efficient Christ-spirited ser- 
vant of this community? Suppose no one of her people v^ere 
more faithful and thoughtful for her welfare than I, would she 
come up to the ideal that I cherish for her ? 

We might apply this test in many ways. I ask you to 
apply it in but a single direction : that of our homes. Upon 
those of us who are fathers and mothers there rests the respon- 
sibility of giving the church a prominent place in the thought 
and the life of those who must be her leaders in the future. If 

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we are her faithful servants toda^-, it is probably due in no 
small part to the influence of the homes in which we were 
reared. Because it was the custom in them for all the members 
of the household to reverence and serve the church, we n:itur- 
all\' came to have a similar attitude ourselves. If the church 
of the future is to be as strong and useful as that of the past, 
we must do more than attend her services and contribute to 
her support. The atmosphere of our homes must be such that 
our children will instinctively reverence the church and the 
things for which she stands. Such an atmosphere is not an 
easy thing to achieve. It means careful thought and prayerful 
co-operation on the part of the makers of the home. It means 
some sacrifice of momentar\Mnclination forthe sake of principle. 
It means persistent and consecrated effort to realize such a family 
ideal that the things of Christ may be known to belong to the 
home as much as tothechurch. Ifthey work together, Christian 
homes and the church may hope to Christianize the whole 
community, but without such co-operation they can do very 
little. A family church like our own must draw her power 
from the homes of her people. When religion is held in lc)w 
esteem by them, then the life of the church must be like a river 
whose tributaries have begun to dry up. So our thought of 
the past century and a quarter of service rendered here, 
challenges us to make the Way of the Cross the way of life in 
our homes, and there, b}' example and precept, to teach our 
boys and girls that it is a noble thing to serve one's fellows 
through the church and to make sacrifices for the sake of such 
service; to the end that our children may some day take their 
places here as leaders, walking in the royal way, with the 
light which shr)ne on the cross shining in their faces. 

Though this wa}' in which we, as individuals and as a 
church, should walk is old, the things which we should do are 
many of them new. If we follow the old way we are sure to 
find the new things which need to be done; but if, on the other 
hand, we insist on doing only the old things, we may be certain 
that we shall soon be out of the way wherein we ought to go. 
This is the truth which the churches of toda^' most need to 

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learn. One of the chief grounds for Christian optimism at the 
present time is the fact that so many of them are grasping it 
and putting it into action. It is not important that a church 
should keep the old round of services unchanged ; it is all im- 
portant that she should be willing to change all her methods 
and attempt many new tasks in order to serve the community 
in which she finds herself. Mr. Beecher once said: "I would 
not speak one word to undervalue the church ; but if a man be 
a hunter, after he has fired, does he look into the rifle, or where 
the game is ? And am I to look into the church and the Bible, 
or at the condition of mj fellow-men, to see the result of 
Christianity ? Any good institution, whose design is to afi^ct 
the whole community, must be studied first in the community, 
and not in the institution." 

So we must apply another test to our church life of today. 
We must not only be sure that we are keeping in the old path, 
but we must be certain also that we are meeting the new needs 
of the community. We are placed here as one that serve th. 
Though we speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and 
though we have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries 
and all knowledge, and have all faith, and though we bestow 
all our goods to feed the poor, but have not the dynamic good- 
will which impels us to learn and meet the ever-changing needs 
of the community, it profiteth us nothing. When our fathers 
crossed the sea in order to build homes in which they could 
worship God according to the dictates of their conscience, they 
v^ere following the ancient way of loyalty and sacrifice, but 
they v^ere doing what neither they nor their fathers had 
dreamed of doing before. The city which surrounds us is 
changing all the time. We must not look back at what has 
been done before, nor inward to consult our own sentiments and 
prejudices, but at these changing needs of the communit)^ in 
order to find the things which we ought to do. Our task is 
nothing less than to have our full part in the Christianizing of 
the life of the city and to have no small share in the Christian- 
izing of the life of the world. This means that we must be 
ever on the alert to discover evil in new forms and to fight it ; 

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to learn new ways of reaching people with the message and 
spirit of the Master and to use such ways ; to keep before our- 
selves the ideal of Christlike service and to be eager to give 
ourselves to the realization of that ideal and, if need be, to lose 
ourselves for its sake. 

It is for this attitude that we need to pray and re-conse- 
crate ourselves today: the attitude of disciples of the Master 
who would keep to his royal Way of the Holy Cross, but are 
ever ready to do the new things which may be found to be 
done therein. 

From the man}- things which need to be done in the imme- 
diate present I select two for brief mention. First, we ought, 
as a church, to provide more adequate facilities for the social 
life of our boys and girls. If we are to serve the community as 
we are called to do, we must be able to touch the life of the 
young people more often than once or, at the most, twice a 
week. The places for wholesome recreation in the city are few. 
There is no public gymnasium. The community need is appar- 
ent. We are in a position to satisfy it in part at least. The 
inspiration of our anniversary ought to lead us to plan and 
build an addition to our present church building with a gym- 
nasium and club rooms which could be open every day in the 
week. Often I receive letters from pastors in neighboring 
towns telling me of some of their bo3's who have come to the 
city to work. I call on them and invite them to our services. 
Think how much more our church would mean to them if it 
could offer them wholesome social contacts every evening! 
But we do not need to look beyond our own boys to realize 
the necessity of doing this thing. They need the physical 
training and the healthy association. Their love for the church 
and the good that the church can do them would be multiplied 
many-fold by the provision of a parish house. 

There is just one other thing of which I would speak at 
this time. In order to strengthen our fellowship for commu- 
nity service, we need to have inchided in it all wlio share our 
Christian purpose and are in the habit of worshipping witli us. 
There arc no intellectual barriers to momhcrshin hero. We are 



a fellowship of the followers of Jesus Christ. There are many 
among us who have never united with us. We would be 
greatly strengthened for the work we have to do if all such 
would publicly acknowledge their allegiance to the Master and 
their desire to work with us for the advancement of his 
kingdom. 

"The Lord shew us the way wherein we should walk, and 
the thing that we should do." The Way is old and it is the 
Way of the Cross. The thing to be done is that which lies 
nearest us on the Way and it may be new. If other anniver- 
sary seasons are to be as notable as this, it will be because we of 
the present have followed the Way by doing the new things, 
even at great apparent sacrifice, in the spirit of Him whose 
name we bear. 

Following the morning service Rally Day was observed in 
the Sunday School. The attendance was unusually large. 
Mr. Corey and the quartette aided with special music. 



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CITIZENSHIP DAY 

William Howard Taft, ex- President of the United States, 
in accepting the committee's invitation to make the address on 
Citizenship Day wrote: "It is a great pleasure for mc to come 
to Vermont, and while I doubt my ability to sa}- anj-thing 
that will be usefnl up there, I shall be very glad to make an 
effort." Mr. Taft took for his subject, "The Qualities of Citi- 
zenship Most Needed Today." He spoke forcibh' of the 
church as the author of the sturd3^ citizenship that prevailed a 
centur}' ago ; of the softness of mood and confusion of thought 
evidenced by the doctrines of man^- modern reformers; of the 
need of "a return to the fciith of our fathers" and of "a revival 
of church influence, of faith in God and greater faith in man." 

An audience which filled the church to its capacity joined 
in the celebration of this closing day of the anniversary. 



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HISTORICAL STATEMENT 

The Congregational Church of the town of Rutland was 
formed in October, 1773, with fourteen members, who 
worshipped in a log meeting-house at Center Rutland. From 
the foundation of this church until 1787 Rev. Benajah Roots 
was its pastor. About 1780 the people of East Rutland 
decided to withdraw and hold services of their own, and in 
1784 they began the erection of a church building. 

On October 5, 1788— the date we commemorate— this, our 
church, was formally organized, with thirty-seven members. 

Of Church Edifices there have been three: The first stand- 
ing just south of the old North Main Street burying-ground ; 
the second, first used for worship in May, 1819, at the north 
corner of Main Street and Aiken Place; and the present build- 
ing, dedicated in June, 1860. A chapel on West Street, in use 
in connection with the second building, was moved and joined 
to the new church. In 1874 this was replaced by the present 
brick chapel, and in 1891 the interior of the church building 
was extensively remodeled. 

In Membership the church has increased from the original 
37— which later dwindled to 23— to 845, of whom 605 are 
resident members. The total number of persons who have 
been connected with the church during its century and a 
quarter of life is 2,685. 

The Communion Service has been observed without inter- 
ruption since the beginning of Dr. Walker's ministry; how 
much earlier is not recorded. Since about 1832 church prayer 
meetings have been regularly held. 

The Sunday School was established in 1818. It is said to 
have been the first Sunday School ever held in Rutland. It 
then met in the old County Court House on Main Street at 

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five o'clock in the afternoon and onl}^ in the summer months. 
The hour was afterwards changed to nine o'clock in the morn- 
ing. Still later the session occurred in the church between the 
morning and afternoon services. In 1865 a primary- depart- 
ment was organized. Of its successive administrations, the 
superintendency of Mrs. John B. Page is most notable, con- 
tinuing for twenty-three years. A list of the superintendents 
of the mnin school follows: Deacon William Page, 1818-1847; 
Deacon James Barrett, 1847-1860; Deacon John H. Bowman, 
1860-1869; Governor John B. Page, 1869-1884; Deacon Henry 
F. Field, 1884-1902; the superintendents since Mr. Field- 
Deacon George K. Montgomery, Mr. John B. Stearns, Governor 
John A. Mead, Mr. John H. Wood, Mr. Charles P. Cooper, Mr. 
Isaac Thomas, Mr. Wilbert Burditt. 

A List of Our Ministers, with dates of their service to the 
church, follows: Rev. Samuel Williams, (not installed) 1789 — 
1795; Rev. Hcman Ball, 1797-1821; Rev. Charles Walker. 
D. D., 1823-1833; Rev. William Mitchell, 1833-1846; Rev. 
Silas Aiken, D. D., 1849-1863; Rev. Norman Seaver, D. D., 
1860-1868; Rev. James G. Johnson, D. D., 1870-1885; Rev. 
George VV. Phillips, D. D., 1886-1906; Rev. William II. 
Spence, 1906-1912; Rev. Arthur H. Bradford, installed 1913. 

A Brief Summary follows of the pastorates since Dr. 
Aiken's, the point to which Dr. Seaver in the commemorative 
sermon brought his historical survey. 

Reverend Norman Seaver was, at the age of twenty-five, 
ordained and installed as associate pastor on August 28, 
1860. A graduate of Andover Theological Seminary, while 
still in the seminar3^ he had been chosen by Dr. Aiken to be- 
come his colleague. In 1863 he succeeded to the sole pastorate, 
maintaining throughout his ministry filial and hapjn- rela- 
tions with his former leader. During Dr. Seaver's ])astorate 
one hundred and twenty-eight members were received into the 
church. Orator and thinker, he laid such a spell on his hearers 
that men still remember, after half a century, the force and 
elofiuencc of his sermons. His address on the Sunday follow- 

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ing the death of Lincoln bowed all hearts. Dr. Seaver was 
sorrowfully dismissed by his people on November 4, 1868, to 
accept the call of a Brooklyn church. At the close of Dr. 
Johnson's pastorate he was recalled to this church, but an 
invitation to Syracuse, already accepted, precluded his return. 

Reverend James G. Johnson was installed on April 21, 
1870. The fifteen years of his pastorate were marked by an 
ever deepening sense of Christian fellowship and an ever 
widening conception of Christian service. Dr. Johnson came 
to the Rutland church, a young man, entering upon the work 
of what was practically his first parish; and he naturally 
rallied about himself large numbers of earnest and consecrated 
3^ oung people. In the fall of 1877 evangelistic services were 
conducted by Whittle and McGranahan. The following Jan- 
uary saw a band of people, one hundred and twenty in num- 
ber, present themselves for church membership on confession 
of their faith. In all, five hundred and ninety-one members 
v.^ere added to the church during Dr. Johnson's ministry. 

The present chapel was completed after Dr. Johnson came 
here and was used for the first time for a Sunday School con- 
cert December 28, 1873. In 1875 the envelope system for 
church contributions was adopted, each person making his 
pledge for the church work as a whole, the total yearly budget 
being divided betv/een current expenses and benevolences. The 
Johnson familj^ was the first to occupy the present parsonage, 
as it was purchased in March, 1882. In 1879 Dr. Johnson, 
"desirous of founding a society which should be a social, mental, 
and spiritual stimulus to the young women of the parish," 
was the guiding genius in the organization of The Fortnightly. 
To the fact that his desire has been fulfilled, the history of the 
society and the unique place of esteem it holds today in the 
hearts of our church women bear abundant testimony. 

Reverend George W. Phillips of Plymouth Church, Worces- 
ter, Mass., accepted a call to this church and was installed as 
its pastor on June 17, 1886. During twenty years of devoted 
service Dr. Phillips ministered to this people with courtly 

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grace and tender sympath^v. The gracious hospitality' of th.e 
parsonage was given unreservedly to friends, acquaintances, 
and the strangers within our gates. To the smaller churches 
in the county- the pastor of the Rutland Church was friend and 
councillor. The annual dinner which Dr. and Mrs. Phillips 
gave to the Rutland County ministers and their wives was an 
event eagerh- looked forward to b\' both guests and hosts. 

A love for little children was a marked characteristic of Dr. 
Phillips, and his frequent services for the children were 
arranged with especial care and pleasure. The custom of pre- 
senting Bibles to the children upon the seventh anniversary of 
their baptism was inaugurated by him. The Christian En- 
deavor Societies for both the Young People and the Juniors 
were started in the earlier 3'ears of his pastorate. 

Extensive repairs were made upon the church and chapel 
in 1891. The parlors and Sunday School room were re- 
arranged and the church auditorium re-decorated, re-furnished, 
and otherwise altered. An elaborate musical and devotional 
service marked the completion of these changes on January 13, 
1892. 

The Mill Village Chapel was bnilt in 1896. Although the 
organization was undenominational, yet Dr. Phillips always 
maintained a lively interest in the work carried on there and 
frequently preached at the Sunday afternoon services. 

During Dr. Phillips's pastorate a church lot was purchased 
in Evergreen Cemetery and under his direction the remains of 
Dr. Heman Ball were removed from the old Main Street Ceme- 
tery to the newly purchased lot. It was likewise at his insti- 
gation that the earl^^ church records were re-co{)ied and })ut 
into more permanent and available form. 

Seven hundred and seventeen members were received into 
the church during Dr. Phillips's ministry; four hundred and 
twenty-five of this number on confession of their faith. 

Reverend William H. Spencc was installed on November 
20, 1906. His six-year pastorate, though it establisiied an 
unwelcome precedent as to length, bore am[)le testimony to 

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his ability as a constructive leader and a strong pulpit orator. 
During his first year, the long-standing parsonage debt of 
thirty-five hundred dollars was cleared. The young people's 
work was reorganized along the more modern lines; the 
strength of the Knights of King Arthur as an organization for 
boys was fully, and in many ways impressively, demonstrated. 
During the latter half of his pastorate, a series of Sunday 
vesper services brought within the doors of the church each 
week many who w^ere not of the church's regular constituency, 
and appreciably widened the interest of the community in 
matters religious and moral and in the causes of social and 
civic righteousness. 

Two hundred and twenty-three members were received into 
the church during Mr. S pence's ministry. 

Reverend Arthur H. Bradford, the present pastor, was 
installed on February 19, 1913. 



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ROLL OF THE CHURCH 



PARISH DIRECTORY 

OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH 

Pastor . . . . . . . Rev. Arthur H. Bradford 

DEACONS 

Henry F. Field Henry A. Harman Isaac Thomas 

G. K. Montgomery Geo. E. Chalmers Andrus B Engrem 

D. K. Hall Asher Burditt J. R. Hoadley 

John W. Ross Henry A. Hall Edward S. Curtis 

Clerk G. K. Montgomery 

Treasurer , Henry S. Parker 

Superintendent of Sunday School . . . Wilbert E. Burditt 

OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETY 

President . . E. L. Olney 

Clerk . . . G.E.Chalmers 

Treasurer . J. R. Hoadley 

Collector W. H. Botsford 

CHOIR 

Miss Sarah Thomas, Soprano 
Miss Clara M. Hitchcock, Contralto 
Mr. Lowell Kenney, Tenor 
Mr. Archie Stewart, Bass 
Organist Harry H. Corey 

STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1913 

Finance— E. L. Olney G. G. Marshall E. Per Lee Smith 

Buildings— E. F. White E. L. Olney C. R. Boyden 

Pews— E. Per Lee Smith C. R. Boyden E. S. Slade 

Music— F. P. Robinson Asher Burditt E. L. Olney 

Lights— G. G. Marshall E. S. Slade Asher Burditt 

Insurance— J. R. Bates F. P. Robinson G. G. Marshall 

Sexton— Asher Burditt J. R. Bates E. F. White 

Sheds— E. S. Slade E. F. White J. R. Bates 

Printing— C. R. Boyden E. Per Lee F. P. Robinson 

THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE 

Henry F. Field Miss Ellen Cramton Miss Beth B. Gilchrist 

John A. Mead Miss Edith Dunton James P. Sawyer 

Mrs. C. S. Caverly Miss Marion Gary Earl D. Wickham 

Carleton Wilson The Pastor, ex-officio 



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RESIDENT MEMBERS 



Adams, Glen A. 
Adams, Mae E. 

(Mrs. G. A.) 
Adams, Ethelwin 
Adams, Irene L. 
Aldrich, Gertrude M. 
Aldrich, Katherine 
Aldrich, Lloyd E. 
Allen, Mary 

(Mrs. W. A.) 
Alwlll, Frances M. 
Alwill, Eleanor T. 

(Mrs. A. J.) 
Badlam, Lillian N. 

(Mrs. G. E. L.) 
Bagley, Leon Q. 
Bagley, Anna H. 

(Mrs. L. G.) 
Bagley, Myra Anna 
Bailey, Fred R. 
Bailey, Mary L. 

(Mrs. VVaynej 
Bailey, Alice M. 
Bailey, Marguerite R. 
Baldwin, Abbie H. C. 

(Mrs. F. H.) 
Baldwin, Charles C. 
Ballard, Sarah E. 
Ballou, Orris C. 
Barney, Emeline P. 

(Mrs. J. A.) 
Barrett, Anna 

(Mrs. U. H.) 
Barrett, Susan A. 
Barrett, Ellen G. 
Barrett, Rush P. 
Barton, Alta M. 

(Mrs. O. M.) 



Admitted 




Admitted 


1912 


Bates, Edith B. 


1902 


1912 


Bates, John R. 


1908 




Bates, Lizzie P. 


1908 


1913 


(Mrs. J. R.) 




1910 


Bates, Russell P. 


1908 


1907 


Reals, Lulu K. 


1896 


1911 


(Mrs. R. D.) 




1911 


Beane, Raymond 


1911 


1900 


Beebe, Frank L. 


1889 




Beebe, Martha K. 


1891 


1907 


(xMrs. F. L.) 




1905 


Beebe, Hilda K. 


1913 




Beinhower, Mary K. 


1889 


1890 


(Mrs. L I.) 






Bentley, Cordelia 


1891 


1877 


(Mrs. R. E.) 




1881 


Bishop, Almon S. 


1901 




Bishop, Lillian J. 


1894 


1902 


(Mrs. A. S.) 




1873 


Bishop, Frederick S. 


1896 


1881 


Bishop, Alice G. 

(Mrs. F. S.) 


1895 


1902 


Bissell, Aaron 


1891 


1906 


Bissell, Elmer W. 


1893 


1909 


Bissell, Fannie A. 

(Mrs. E. W.) 


1893 


1913 


Bissell, Maud H. 


1902 


1911 


Bissell, Viola S. 


1903 


1911 


(Mrs. A. J.) 




1867 


Bixby, Ida M. 

(Mrs. C. F.) 


1894 


1897 


Blakoly, Nellie 
(Mrs. C. E.) 


1895 


1901 


Blakely, Ruth P. 


1911 


1843 


Hlannhard, Frank R 


1900 


1888 


Blanchard, Persis M. 


1900 


1884 


(Mrs. F. R.) 






Blanchard, Mrs. Ellen R. 


1900 



47 



Blanchard, Paul H 
Blanchard, Bertha H. 

(Mrs. H. L.) 
Botsford, William H. 
Botsford, Ethel P. 

(Mrs. W. H.) 
Boutwell, Ethel A. 
Boyden, Emma T. 

(Mrs. 0. A.) 
Boynton, Flora F. 

(Mrs. A. J.) 
Boynton, Robert 0. 
Bradford, Mary C. 
Bradford, Rev. Arthur H. 
Bradford, Eugenia P. 

(Mrs. A. H.) 
Bradley, Ina A. 

(Mrs. N. M.) 
Branch, Jay E. 
Branch, Avis W. 

(Mrs. J. E.) 
Brehmer, Bertram A. 
Brewer, Mrs. Lorenza 
Brigham, Sarah A. 

(Mrs. 0. O.) 
Brigham, Lynn B. 
Brock, Lucy A. 

(Mrs. S. A.) 
Brooks, Edward M. 
Brooks, Mary B. 

(Mrs. E. M.) 
Brown, Charlotte A. 

(Mrs. Burt) 
Brown, Eliza L. 

(Mrs. Oscar) 
Brown, Helen E. 
Brown, Isabella M. 
Brown, Amelia E. 
Brown, Clarence A. 
Brown, Lucy R. 

(Mrs. C. A.) 
Burbank, Abbie E. 

(Mrs. W. F.) 
Burbank, Dorothy E. 



Admitted 




Admitted 


1907 


Burditt, Asher 


1907 


1906 


Burditt, Jessie A. 

(Mrs. Asher) 


1907 


1911 


Burditt, Margery 


1907 


1911 


Burditt, Rollin A. 


1909 




Burditt, Mary E. 


1885 


1911 


(Mrs. W. F.) 




1913 


Burditt, Wilbert E. 


1900 


1909 


Burditt, Henrietta P. 
(Mrs. W. E.) 


1902 


1909 


Burditt, Wilmahetta J. 


1895 


1882 


(Mrs. E. D.) 




1913 


Bushey, Julia 


1890 


1913 


(Mrs. J. M.) 






Buxton, Mrs. Mary J. 


1902 


1906 


Camlin, Joseph R. 


1909 




Camlin, Floy 


1909 


1913 


(Mrs. J. R.) 




1913 


Campbell, Charles E. 


1885 




Campbell, Hattie L. 


1885 


1892 


(Mrs. C. E.) 




1891 


Campbell, Perle B. 


1892 


1896 


(Mrs. L. E.) 






Candlish, Mrs. Mary E. 


1894 


1894 


Capron, Jennie D. 


1875 


1892 


(Mrs. L.) 






Cardelle, Frances M. 


1870 


1907 


(Mrs. C.E.) 




1907 


Cardelle, Mrs. Mildred 


1902 




Carley, Louise J. 


1896 


1912 


(Mrs. F. F.) 






Cassidy, Lucinda 


1911 


1858 


(Mrs. George) 






Cassidy, Lois 


1911 


1878 


Caverly, Charles S. 


1887 


1848 


Caverly, Mabel T. 


1881 


1887 


(Mrs. C. S.) 




1911 


Chalmers, George E. 


1878 


1905 


Chalmers, Lorinda E. 
(Mrs. G. E.) 


1889 


1908 


Chalmers, Alfa T. 


1901 




Chalmers, Ruth A. 


1909 


1911 


Chamberlin, Mrs. Abbie E. 


1913 



48 



Cheney, Jane D. 

(Mra. H. W.) 
Cheney, Lucy D. 
Church, Ralph M. 
Church, Mary B. H. 

(Mra. R. M.) 
Clark, George E. 
Clark, Mrs. Mary P. 
Coatea, Bessie M. 

(Mra. J. M.) 
Coates, Robert P. 
Coates, Hugh B. 
Colton, Fannie M. 

(Mra. S. S.) 
Colton, Mrs. Hannah M 
Colton, Daisy R. 
Colton, John H. 
Cook, Emma 
Coolidge, Marjorie B. 

(Mra. Paul) 
Cooper, Charles P. 
Cooper, Juliet B. 

(Mra. C. P.) 
Cooper, Miriam 
Cooper, C. Milton 
Cooper, Dorothy 
Cramton, Mary E. 
Cramton, Laura B. 

(Mra. A. S.j 
Cramton, Ellen B. 
Crane, Howard P. 
Currier, Mary A. 

(Mra. O. W.) 
Currier, Grace M. 
Curtia, Edward H. 
Curtia, Viletta T. 

(Mra. E. S.) 
Curtia, Edward W. 
Daggett, Elvira A. 

(Mrs. P.) 
Dana, Edward 
Dana, Harriette M. D. 

(Mra. Edward) 



itted 




Admitted 


1864 


Dana, Marion 


1900 




Dana, Constance 


1913 


1895 


Davey, Marion L. 


1911 


1909 


Davis, Hattie P. 


1866 


1909 


(Mrs. A. F.) 






Davis, Charles E. 


1892 


1889 


Davis, Georga H. 


1910 


1890 


(Mra. C. E.) 




1891 


Davis, Robert V. N. 


1894 




Davis, Charlotte K. 


1889 


1909 


(Mrs. Edgar) 




1909 


Davia, Guert A. 


1892 


1908 


Davis, Delia L. F. 

(Mra. G. A.) 


1901 


1909 


Davis, Elizabeth S. 


1884 


1909 


(Mrs. T. A.) 




1909 


Davis, Minnie E. 


1900 


1864 


Davis, Albert L. 


1905 


1910 


Davis, Nellie M. 
(Mrs. A. L.) 


1905 


1913 


Davis, Irene E. 


1905 


1913 


Davis, Hattie N. 


1905 




Davis, Wayne E. 


1909 


1913 


Dodge, Mary S. 


1899 


1913 


(Mrs. E. A.) 




1913 


Dodge, Albert G. 


1911 


1867 


Dodge, Esther N. 


1913 


1890 


(Mrs. A. G.) 






Dunklee, Martha T. 


1878 


1892 


(Mra. B. F.) 




1911 


Dunn, Mra. Frances E. 


1866 


1867 


Dunn, Frank C. 


1892 




Dunn, William H. 


1892 


1892 


Dunn, Jamea C 


1886 


1877 


Dunn, Lucy M. 


1884 


1884 


(Mra. J. C.) 






Dunn, Frances 


l'J07 


1908 


Dunn, Florence M. 


1911 


1889 


DuntoM, William K. 


1888 




Dunton, Miriam B. 


1891 


1891 


(Mrs. W. C.) 




1876 


Dunton, Edith K. 


1895 




Dunton, Mary B. 


1902 



49 





Admitted 


Durgy, Herbert A. 


1913 


Durgy, Celia W. 


1913 


(Mrs. H. A.) 




Button, Leon G. 


1911 


Edson, AloDzo B. 


1894 


Edson, Nellie E. 


1873 



Edson, Nellie E. 


1873 


(Mrs. A. B.) 




Eggleston, Anna W. 


1896 


(Mrs. H. F.) 




Engrem, Ann J. 


1857 


(Mrs. John) 




Engrem, Andrus B. 


1870 


Engrem, Jessie W. 


1874 


(Mrs. A. B.) 




Fairfield, Whitcomb 


1913 


Fairfield, F. Jeannette 


1910 


Farmer, Sarah E. 


1850 


Farmer, Henry H. 


1864 


Farmer, Jennie M. 


1867 


(Mrs. B. F.) 




Farmer, Henry B. 


1888 


Farmer, Marion H. 


1890 


(Mrs. H. B.) 




Farmer, Elisabeth D. 


1905 


Farmer, Jennie 


1880 


(Mrs. Charles) 




Farnsworth, Jessie F. 


1890 


(Mrs. G. H.) 




Farr, Laura J. 


1913 


Field, Fred A. 


1876 


Field, Lillie C. 


1876 


(Mrs. F. A.) 




Field, Fred A., Jr. 


1900 


Field, Henry F. 


1866 


Fillmore, Mrs. Harriett S. 


1911 


Fillmore, Lucy H. 


1911 


Fish, William G. 


1878 


Flagg, Frank R. 


19C5 


Flagg, Eunice D. 


1905 


(Mrs. F. R.) 




Flagg, Elon L. 


1901 


Flagg, Russell D. 


1908 


Fox, Mattie P. 


1884 





Admitted 


Francisco, Herbert A. 


1884 


Franklin, Marietta E. 


1868 


(Mrs. L.N.) 




Frost, Ruth S. 


1913 


(Mrs. Rufus) 




Fuller, Nellie R. 


1893 


(Mrs. C. A.) 




Fulton, Adams B. 


1912 


Fulton, Isabella B. 


1912 


(Mrs. A. B.) 




Gale, Alice A. 


1878 


(Mrs. 0. A.) 




Gary, Frank W. 


1878 


Gary, Carrie L. W. 


1870 



(Mrs. F. W.) 
Gary, Marion 
Germond, Flo&sie L. 
Gero, Winifred O. 

(Mrs. H. E.) 
Gibson, Hattie N. 
Gilbert, George L. 
Gilbert, Fannie M. 

(Mrs. G. L.) 
Gilbert, Ernest L. 
Gilbert, Mark D. 
Gilchrist, Martha B. 

(Mrs. O. J.) 
Gilchrist, Beth B. 
Gill, John 
Gill, Grace 

(Mrs. John) 
Goddard, William A. 
Goddard, Harriet G. 

(Mrs. G. M.) 
Goodwin, Martha I. 

(Mrs. M. S.) 
Granger, Julia B. 

(Mrs. Arthur) 
Graves, Mrs. Lucy A. 
Greaves, James R. 
Greeno, Abbie A. T. 

(Mrs. B. R.) 
Grimm, Esther M. 

(Mrs. G. H.) 



1896 
1907 
1905 

1889 
1904 
1904 

1908 
1911 
1882 

1894 
1906 
1907 



1896 

1894 

1900 

1904 
1895 

1888 

1902 



50 



Grimm, Nella M. 
GriDnell, Emmet R. 
Grinnell, Clara E. 

(Mrs. E. R.) 
Grinnell, Mildred J. 
Grinnell, Kathleen F. 
Griswold, Carrie E, 
Grover, Arthur C. 
Grover, Su8ie T. 

(Mrs. A. C.) 
Grover, Newell A. 
Hall, Angle L. 

(Mrs. Charles) 
Hall, Henry A. 
Hall, Flora E. 

(Mrs. Mrs. H. A.) 
Hall, Dan K. 
Hall, Martha A. 

(Mrs. D. K.) 
Harman, Henry A. 
Harman, Jean W. 

(Mrs. H. A.) 
Harman, Richard J. 
Harman, George N. 
Harris, Mary G. 

(Mrs. J. B.) 
Harris, Charles P. 
Harris, Charlotte S. 

(Mrs. C. P.) 
Hart, Birdie M. 
Harvey, Bessie H. 

(Mrs. Levi) 
Harwood, EmmaG. 

(Mrs. E. V. N.) 
Harwood, Mary E. 
Hascall, George M. 
Hascall, Agnes P. 

(Mrs. G. M.) 
Hascall, Buell P. 
Hascall, ThoniaH H. 
Hathaway, Herbert H. 
Hayward, Minnie K. 

(Mrs. E. D.) 



dmitted 




Admitted 


1902 


Hayward, Emma G. 


1901 


1894 


(Mrs. F. W.) 




1894 


Hazplton, Mrs. Abbie S 


1884 




Hewett, David D. 


1906 


1905 


Hewett, Martha C. 


1906 


1909 


(Mrs. D. D ) 




1877 


Hewitt, Mrs. Electa 


1883 


1899 


Heyman, Lucy A. 


1898 


1899 


(Mrs. Jake) 






Hill, F. C. 


1893 


1913 


Hill, Susan 


1878 


1878 


(Mrs. W. A.) 






Billiard, Hattie R. 


1907 


1874 


(Mrs. J. F.) 




1880 


Hilliard, John R. 


1907 




Hilliard, Sarah E. 


1907 


1832 


Hilliard, Jeanie M. 


1907 


1882 


Kinsman, Carl B. 


1902 




Hinsman, Mary M. 


1894 


1890 


(Mrs. C. B.) 




1897 


Hoadley. Justus R. 


1908 




Hoadley, Carrie D. W. 


1908 


1902 


(Mrs. J. R.) 




1906 


Hoag, Elvira V. 


1894 


1877 


(Mrs. Wyman) 






Hoag, Homer L. 


1878 


1866 


Hoag, Frances F. 


1882 


1880 


(Mrs. H. L.) 






Hoag, Robert W. 


1902 


1912 


Hodsdon, Anna 


1899 


1906 


(Mrs. VV. G.) 






Hollister, Ella O. 


1870 


1870 


(Mrs. J. B.) 






Hopkins, Fames R. 


1891 


1886 


Hopkins, Rose G. 


1891 


1908 


(Mrs. E. R.) 




1908 


Houghton, Caroline J. 
(Mrs. A. R.) 


1882 


1911 


Howard, Helen A. 


1893 


v.n-6 


(Mrs. J. N.) 




1913 


Howard, Samuel A. 


1890 


1878 


Howard, Estello B. 

(Mrs. S. A.) 


1892 



61 



Howard, Samuel A., Jr. 
Howe, Florence L. 
Huffert, Augustus V. 
Huffert, Margarita M. 

(Mrs. A. V.) 
Hughes, Mary E. 

(Mrs. E. R.) 
Hughes, Raymond A. 
Huntoon, Mary E. C. 

(Mrs. L. N.) 
Jerry, Antoine O. 
Jerry, Cora D. 

(Mrs. A. O.) 
Johnson, Henry M. 
Johnson, William 
Johnson, Marie W. 
Johnson, Marguerite 
Johnson, Miriam L. 

(Mrs. W. D.) 
Jones, Joseph 0. 
Jones, Lawrence C. 
Jones, George F. 
Kelley, Roy W. 
Kelley, Edith B. 
Kellogg, Johu N. 
Kellogg, James T. 
Kellogg, Carrie D. 

(Mrs. J. T.) 
Kennedy, Edwin D. 
Kennedy, Elizabeth 

(Mrs. E. D.) 
Kennedy, Edna E. 
Kenney, George W. 
Kenney, Lovina P. 

(Mrs. G. W.) 
Kenney, Lowell D. 
Kenney, George K. 
Kenney, Fred B. 
Kenney, Margaret A. M. 

(Mrs. F. B.) 
Kent, Mrs. Elsie A. 
Kent, Mary W. 
Kingsley, Moses P. 
Kingsley, Henry W. 



itted 




Admitted 


1911 


Kingsley, Frank M. 


1866 


1907 


(Mrs. H. W.) 




1910 


Kinsley, Hester M. 


1913 


1902 


Kinsman, Abbie R. 
(Mrs. C. C.) 


1909 


1901 


Kinsman, Carroll E. 


1886 




Kinsman, Fred E. 


1909 


1906 


Kinsman, Elizabeth 


1909 


1905 


(Mrs. F. E ) 






Kirk, William 


1908 


1907 


Kirk, Mabel L. 


1900 


1907 


Kirk, Jennie T. 
(Mrs. G. L.) 


1894 


1908 


Knapp, Mrs. Emily C. 


1892 


1911 


Knapp, Frank W. 


1879 


1907 


Knapp, Anna T. 


1888 


1910 


(Mrs. F. W.) 




1889 


Knapp, W. Theodore 


1911 




Knowlaon, AnnaS. 


1907 


1892 


Landon, Mattie G. 


1896 


1908 


(Mrs. C. H.) 




1913 


Landon, Gordon 


1913 


1913 


Leavenworth, Lucy W. 


1913 


1913 


(Mrs. A. E.) 




1911 


Lee, Harrison H. 


1880 


1897 


Lee, Lucy J. 


1880 


1897 


(Mrs. H. H.) 






Lees, Marion G. 


1913 


1909 


Lefflngwell, Warren C. 


1892 


1909 


Leffingwell, Jennie H. 
(Mrs. W. C.) 


1892 


1907 


LeflBngwell, Mildred C. 


1905 


1896 


Lester, William H. 


1878 


1896 


Lester, Mary E. 
(Mrs. W. H.) 


1895 


1896 


Lester, Henry E. 


1895 


1896 


Littler, William 


1909 


1896 


Littler, Nellie P. 


1895 


1902 


(Mrs. William) 






Locke, David B. 


1911 


1903 


Locke, Allen W. 


1910 


1891 


Long, Clark L. 


1857 


1858 


Long, Chloe 


1863 


1858 


Lovely, John E. 


1911 



52 



Lyman, Arthur 
Lyman, Alice P. 

(Mrs. Arthur) 
Lyman, Mary P. 

(Mrs. C. H.) 
Lyman, Reginald P. 
McCloy, Mary E. 

(Mrs. G. C.) 
McClure, Martha A. 

(Mrs. A. M.) 
McClure, Lottie D. 

(Mrs. M. A.) 
McClure, Samuel 
McFarlane, Mrs. Louise R 
MacAlees, Helen F. 

(Mrs. A. M.) 
Mace, U. V. 
Mace, Vangelia M. 

(Mrs. U. V.) 
Mace, H. Seward 
MacGregor, Cornelia N. P 

(Mrs. Q. B.) 
MacKinnon, Henrietta D. 

(Mrs. J. B.) 
MacKinnon, Annie L. 
MacMillan, Peter 
MacMillan, Mary 

(Mrs. Peter) 
MacMillan, Florence H. 
Manning, Arthur 
Marks, Lina K. 

(Mrs. E. D.) 
Martin, Lizzie 

(Mrs. D. E ) 
Martin, Helen E. 
Martin, Maude F. 
Matthews, Cora T. 

(Mrs. A. C.) 
Mead, John A. 
Mead, Mary 8. 

(Mrs. J. A.) 
Mead, Stephen W. 
Mead, Caroline E. 
Mellow, Frank E. 



Admitted 
1890 
1902 

1890 

1911 
1896 

1883 

1880 

1889 
1896 
1913 

1907 
1907 

1909 
1891 

1911 

1911 
1911 
1911 

1911 
1897 
1908 

1903 

1909 
1911 
1896 

1871 
1873 

1907 
1907 
1902 



Mellow, Bertha H. 

(Mrs. F. E.) 
Merriam, Margaret S. 

(Mrs. E. N ) 
Merrill, Mrs. Laura I. 
Montgomery, George K. 
Montgomery, Lucy A. 

(Mrs. Q. K.) 
Montgomery, Florence P. 
Mound, Thomas 
Mound, Lizzie W. 

(Mrs. Thomas) 
Newton, Laura S. 

(Mrs. Walter) 
Newton, Laura M. 
Niles, Grace M. 

(Mrs. A. E.) 
Olney, Carl W. 
Oneal, Lena L. 
Osgood, Lee K. 
Osgood, Estelle M. 

(Mrs. L. K.) 
Osgood, Kingsley 
Otis, Bessie M. 
Owens, Donald 
Paige, Loville L. 

(Mrs. N. A.) 
Paige, Louise E. 
Paige, John N. 
Parker, Henry S. 
Parker, Edith G. 

(Mrs. H. S.) 
Parker, William J. 
Parkhurst, Ellen W. 

(Mrs. C. A.) 
Peabody, Mrs. Agnes S. 
Pearsons, Fillmore A. 
Pearsons, Ada E. 

(Mrs. F. A.) 
Pease, George F. 
Pease, Alice E. 

(Mrs. Q. F.) 
Pease, Alice P. 
Pease, William P. 



Admitted 
1902 

1858 

1905 

1884 
1884 

1910 
1875 
1874 

1881 

1907 
1897 

1918 
1908 
1878 
1878 

1905 
1890 
1918 
1892 

1902 
1892 
1886 
1894 

1896 
1896 

1909 
1888 
1888 

1878 
1900 

1901 
1911 



53 





Admitted 


Pease, George B. 


1913 


Pelton, Paul 


1913 


Perkins, Mary L. 


1867 


Perkins, Cornelia C. 


1888 


(Mrs. C. O.) 




Perkins, Louise C. 


1898 


Perkins, Emelie M. 


1906 


Perkins, Charles A. 


1878 


Perkins, Anna W. 


1889 


(Mrs. C. A.) 




Perkins, Rena B. 


1913 


Perkins, Ethelynd J. 


1913 


Perkins, Gerald L. 


1913 


Pierce, Dana G. 


1905 


Pierce, Darwin C. 


1878 


Pierce, Anna M. 


1867 


(Mrs. D. C.) 




Pierce, Mrs. Sarah R. 


1867 


Pierce, Mary R. 


1892 


Pierce, Clara S. 


1891 


(Mrs. C. C.) 




Pike, LiUia M. 


1896 


(Mrs. Erastus) 




Pike, Viletta C. 


1901 


(Mrs. R. S.) 




Pike, Erwin 0. 


1909 


Pollard, Mrs. May 


1910 


Pollard, Merritt 0. 


1910 


Pond, William R. 


1892 


Pond, Dorothea B. 


1895 


(Mrs. W. R.) 




Pond, Agnes D. 


1890 


(Mrs. J. P.) 




Post, James E. 


1878 


Post, Lura A. 


1878 


(Mrs. J. E.) 




Post, Harry K. 


1894 


Preville, Henry A. 


1909 


Preville, Philemon M. 


1909 


(Mrs. H. A.) 




Prior, Henry M. 


1895 


Prior, Mary E. 


1891 


(Mrs. H. M.) 





Quinn, Katherine A. 

(Mrs. M. A.) 
Ranney, Izah D. 
Reed, Evaletta S. 

(Mrs. C. D.) 
Reed, Etta 
Reed, Hiram H. 
Reynolds, Mrs. Jennie S. 
Reynolds, May E. 
Reynolds, John B. 
Rice, Warren R. 
Rice, Ida F. 

(Mrs. W. R.) 
Rice, Parthenia 

(Mrs. H. C.) 
Rich, Martha M. 

(Mrs. George) 
Richards, Anna L. 

(Mrs. J. W.) 
Richards, Veda E. 
Richardson, Carrie A. 
Robinson, Mrs. Grace W. 
Robinson, Olive G. 
Robinson, Frank P. 
Robinson, Mary M. 

(Mrs. F. P.) 
Robinson, Edward D. 
Robinson, Hazel G. 

(Mrs. 0. A.) 
Robinson, F. Robert 
Ross, Ida F. 

(Mrs. W. E.) 
Ross, John W. 
Ross, Mary E. K. 

(Mrs. J. W.) 
Ross, Emma T. B. 

(Mrs. A. DeL.) 
Ross, Willis M. 
Ross, Anne G. 

(Mrs. W. M.) 
Ross, Carroll G. 
Ross, Malcolm 
Ruggles, Clara J. 



Admitted 
1870 

1906 
1903 

1903 
1906 
1909 
1909 
1857 
1891 
1895 

1889 

1912 

1881 

1913 

1886 
1907 
1907 
1884 
1891 

1902 
1905 

1912 
1877 

1884 
1884 

1886 

1893 
1884 

1909 
1913 
1870 



54 





Admitted 


Ruggles, Eliza D. 


1878 


(Mrs. J. L ) 




Rassell, Raymond F. 


1889 


Russell, Barbara 


1911 


Rustedt, Mabel A. 


1900 


Rustedt, Mary I. 


1902 


Sa^e, Grace M. 


1907 


Sanderson, Maud P. 


1903 


(Mrs. A.L.) 




Sargent, Addie A. 


1895 


Sawyer, Miles S. 


1886 


Sawyer, Dorothy S. 


1910 


Sawyer, Sarah T. 


1890 


(Mrs. George) 




Searles, Mrs. Lillian K. 


1878 


Sears, Justin 


1882 


Seaver, Philip H. 


1889 


Seaver, Sarah B. 


1893 


(Mrs. P. H.) 




Seaver, Rev. Norman, D. 


D. 1912 1 


Seaver, Ellen P. 


1878 


(Mrs. Norman) 




Sexton, Maria A. 


1893 


(Mrs. D. B.) 


1 


Shattuck, Donna M. 


1911 


(Mrs. Bert) 




Shaw, Tully D. 


1891 


Shaw, Carrie 0. 


1878 


(Mrs. T. D.) 




Shaw, Edmund P. 


1906 


Shaw, Raymond H. 


1909 


Sheldon, Caroline A. 


1866 


(Mrs. J. A.) 




Sherwood, Clinton L. 


1909 


Sherwood, Matie B. 


1876 


(Mrs. C. L.) 




Sherwood, Donald B. 


1913 


Sherwood, Isabelle B. 


1913 


Shippey, Jennie 


1912 


Shippey, Augustu.s 


1912 


Silloway, Sarah H. 


1887 


(Mrs. Charles) 




Silloway, Clara M. 


1887 





Admitted 


Skeeles, Nellie B. 


1895 


(Mrs. W. H.) 




Skeeles, Aida P. 


1896 


Skeeles, Mabelle R. C. 


1895 


Slack, Frederick F. 


1909 


Slader, Arthur R. 


1903 


Slader, Minnie C. 


1903 


(Mrs. A. R.) 




Slader, Marjorie F. 


1913 


Smith, E. Per Lee 


1911 


Smith, Minnie C. 


1911 


(Mrs. E. Per Lee) 




Smith, Helen B. W. 


1874 


(Mrs. W. H.) 




Smith, Guy L. 


1884 


Smith, Helen B. 


1883 


Smith, Laura J. 


1881 


(Mrs. F. H.) 




Smith, Anna L. 


1902 


Smith, Jessie E. 


1913 


Smith, MaudN. 


1907 


(Mrs. Robert) 




Spafford, Gladys C. 


1913 


Spaulding, Richard B. 


1911 


Spooner, Harriet M. 


1871 


(Mrs. W. B.) 




Squier, Clara J. 


1858 


Squire, John F. 


1913 


Squire, Elizabeth E. M. 


1913 


(Mrs. J. F.) 




Stafford, Flora A. 


1889 


(Mrs. F. W.) 




Stafford, Fred VV. 


1908 


Stafford, Dorothy A. 


1909 


Stafford, Helen G. 


1912 


Stearns, John B. 


1894 


Stearns, Henrietta S. 


1894 


(Mrs. J. B.) 




Stratton, Sarah J. 


1909 


(Mrs. A. H.) 




Swinnerton, Elizabeth L. 


1892 


(Mrs. F. G.) 




Tait, John F. 


1887 


Temple, John C. 


1878 



55 



Temple, Mary L. 


fitted 
1878 


(Mrs. J. C.) 




Temple, Dorothy C. 


1905 


Temple, Alice M. 


1907 


(Mrs. J. R.) 




Terrill, Susan E. 


1893 


Terrill, William S. 


1873 


Thomas, Harvey 


1905 


Thomas, Julia F. 


1905 


(Mrs. Harvey) 




Thomas, Marion E. 


1910 


Thomas, Isaac 


1908 


Thomas, Richard B. 


1911 


Thomas, Ruth W. 


1907 


(Mrs. E. R.) 




Thompson, Edwin J. 


1880 


Tossing, Nellie A. 


1907 


(Mrs. W. R.) 




Townsend, Stephen D. 


1913 


True, Grace I. 


1912 


Tyrrell, Ellen M. 


1906 


Tyrrell, May P. 


1909 


Utley, Everett G. 


1913 


Walcott, Ida N. 


1913 


(Mrs. E.J.) 




Ward, Oliver D. 


1912 


Ward, Bessie N. 


1907 


(Mrs. 0. D.) 




Wardwell, Charles H. 


1909 


Warren, Daisy S. 


1893 


(Mrs. F. W.) 




Waterhouse, Ellen E. 


1895 


(Mrs. 0. C.) 




Webb, Cassie J. W. 


1891 


(Mrs. Q. H.) 




Wellington, Mrs. Permelia S. 


1889 


Wheaton, Addie L. 


1909 


(Mrs. E. 0.) 




White, Mary A. 


1875 


(Mrs. G. F.) 





White, Lizzie M. 

(Mrs.E. F.) 
White, Helen M. 
White, E. Russell 
White, S. Charles 
White, Etta L. 

(Mrs. A. L.) 
Whitney, Gertrude M. 

(Mrs. Quinn) 
Whitney, Earle L. 
Wickham, Mary D. 

(Mrs. R. C.) 
Wickham, Earle D. 
Wickham, Mary G. 

(Mrs. E. D.) 
Wickham, Ruth G. 
Wilkins, Lloyd P. 
Williams, Alden S. 
Williams, Pauline M. 

(Mrs. A. S.) 
Williams, Henry 
Wilson, Frank M. 
Wilson, Florence M. 

(Mrs. F. M.) 
Wilson, Abigail 
Wilson, O. Carleton 
Wilson, Lillian G. 

(Mrs. O. C.) 
Winslow, Frances C. 

(Mrs. C. L.) 
Woodhouse, Gorilla W. 

(Mrs. G. W.) 
Woodward, Maria L. 

(Mrs. W. H.) 
Yarrington, Herbert H. 
Yarrington, Zoeline S. 

(Mrs. H. H.) 
Young, Mary C. 

(Mrs. J. P.) 



Admitted 
1913 

1913 
1913 
1913 

1887 

1909 

1909 
1881 

1884 
1896 

1911 
1905 
1895 
1905 

1913 
1891 
1891 

1911 
1902 
1901 

1906 

1878 
1894 
1913 



1906 



56 



NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS 



Adams, Orlando Frank 
Adams, Julia K. 

(Mrs. A. M ) 
Aiken, Edwin E. 
Ainsworth, Lizzie 

(Mrs. G. W.) 
Allen, Jehiel D. 
Allen, Mrs. J. D. 
Austin, Mrs. Ann D. 
Babbitt, Anna Amelia 
Ballou, Herbert G. 
Barker, Mrs. Mabel V. 
Barnes, Sara F. 
Barrett, Frederick J. 
Barrett, Laura C. 

(Mrs. J. A.) 
Bennett, Mrs. Louisa S. 
Bishop, Mrs. Olive Stearni 
Booth, Floy E. 
Booth, Ethel B. 

(Mrs. F. E.) 
Bowtell, Sarah E. 

^Mrs. Edward) 
Brown, Fred J. 
Br>ant, Julia McClure 

(Mrs. A. D.) 
Buckbee, Edna V. 
Burroughs, William H. 
Burroughs, Ellen M. 

(Mrs. VV. H.) 
Borroagbs, Evelyn A. 
Burroughs, Edna M. 
Burt, Caroline G. 

(Mrs. D. G.) 
Button, Beatrice E. 
Cady, Nellie T. 

(Mrs. William) 
Cady, Leverett P. 



Admitted 




.\dmitted 


1886 


Callihan, Mrs. Sarah H. 


1890 


1890 


Camlin, Annie 


1906 




Capron, Mrs. Mary S. 


1832 


1878 


Cardelle, Ellen 


1888 


1906 


Carder, Thomas, Jr. 


1888 




Chaplin, Mary 


1896 


1871 


(Mrs. G. W.) 




1871 


Chittenden, Mrs. Eliza A. 


1878 


1878 


Clark, Emma M. 


1904 


1907 


Collins, Rebecca M. 


1887 


1899 


(Mrs. G. T.) 




1892 


Conant, Charles H. 


1909 


1882 


Congdon, Ella Mary 


1895 


1895 


Cook, Bernice S. 


1902 


1883 


(Mrs. Arthur) 






Cragan, Silva R. 


1905 


1864 


(Mrs. H. S.) 




1884 


Crosier, Mrs. Martha A. 


1894 


1901 


Cutting, Andrew J. 


1889 


1901 


Daniels, Blanche L. 


1913 




Davey, Ralph Humphrey 


1902 


1878 


Davidson, Eleanor S. 
(Mrs. J. P.) 


1893 


1879 


navies. Pierce 


1890 


1908 


Davies, Jennie D. 
(Mrs. Pierce) 


1890 


1910 


Davies, Annie M. 


1896 


1899 


Davis, Eugone N. 


1904 


1899 


Dice, Harold C. 


1911 




Dickerman, Minnie McD. 


1878 


1907 


(Mrs. Harry) 




1907 


Dodge, Lottie C. 


1894 


1867 


Dorr, Janet R. 
(Mrs. H. R.) 


1888 


1901 


Dorr, Thomas R. 


1908 


1892 


Douglass, Mrs. Caddie S. 


1890 




Dunton, Walter B. 


1H'.^4 


1902 


Durfee, Mrs. Winifred H. 


1894 



57 



Admitted 

Eayres, William 1857 

Eddy, Herbert W. 1890 

Edwards, Harry L. 1913 

Edwards, Florence E. 1913 

(Mrs. H. L.) 
Bggleston, Mrs. Alice Cook 1896 

Erskine, Samuel H. 1908 

Erskine, Amy A. 1908 

(Mrs. S. H.) 

Erskine, Dorothy 1908 

Fenn, Frederick T. 1902 

Field, Edward D. 1892 

Foster, Adeline S. 1901 

Fowlie, Belle W. 1897 

Fox, John O. 1892 

Francisco, Rollo J. 1887 

Franklin, Anna B. 1891 

(Mrs. E. L.) 

Fuller, Mrs. Julia A. 1898 
Gilman, Mrs. Margaret R. 1888 

Gilmour, Rev. George 1905 

Gilmour, Allen 1904 

Greene, Mary W. 1886 

(Mrs. W. E.) 

Gregory, Annah W. 1895 

(Mrs. R. H.) 

Grout, Edith L. 1883 

Guernsey, Anna L. 1876 

(Mrs. Willis) 

Guyette, Blanche T. 1912 

(Mrs. W. N.) 

Haley, Mary P. 1904 

(Mrs. G. S.) 

Haley, Harold T. 1911 

Hall, George S. 1892 

Harman, Paul B. 1892 

Hayes, Mrs. Mary L. 1878 

Hewitt, Frank M. 1878 

Hewitt, Lizzie H. 1878 

(Mrs. F. M.) 

Holden, Mrs. Alma E. 1895 

Holden, Katherine F. 1903 

(Mrs. C. R.) 



Admitted 

Horton, Ida B. 1890 

(Mrs. G. B.) 

Huntoon, James C. 1905 

Hutchins, Helen W. 1895 

(Mrs. Charles) 

Hyde, Arunah W. 1889 

Hyde, Elizabeth B. 1883 

(Mrs. A. W.) 

Hyde, James K. 1889 

Johnson, Waite C. 1893 

Johnson, Bernard 1907 
Jones, Mrs. GertrudeBosworth 1889 

Kellogg, Mary F. 1880 

(Mrs. S. H.) . 

Kellogg, Theodora 1901 

King, Gertrude J. 1909 

Landers, Mae 1900 

Laprice, Mrs. Clara W. 1858 

Lawrence, Mrs. Cora E. 1894 

Lease, Wilber H. 1877 

Lease, Susan B. 1871 

(Mrs. W. H.) 

Lease, Fred W. 1883 

Long, Sarah H. 1890 

(Mrs. B. G.) 

Lord, Mrs. Rowena R. 1896 

Lyman, George W. 1902 

Lyman, Floyd P. 1901 

Lyman, Eleanor M. 1910 

Mackay, Mildred T. 1892 

(Mrs. W. A.) 

Manning, Nathan 1897 

Manning, Hattie 1897 

(Mrs. Nathan) 

Marks, Minnie L. 1896 

(Mrs. Charles) 

Marshall, Nathan S. 1878 

Maranville, Clarence 1910 

Martin, Mary P. 1886 

(Mrs. Herbert) 

Mason, Mary M. 1902 

(Mrs. F. B.) 
Mattison, Elizabeth S. - 1902 

(Mrs. Robert) 



58 



Merrill, Mrs. Julia D. 
Miller Henry A. 
Miller, Anna E. 

(Mrs. H. A.) 
Miller, Dorothy 
Morgan, Ellsworth E. 
Morrison, John E. 
Museey, Augusta W. 

(Mrs. C. W.) 
Moore, Edna W. 

(Mrs. J. H.) 
Nelson, Kate P. 

(Mrs. Orin) 
Norton, Helen R. 
Olsen, John Otto 
Otis, Julia W. 

(Mrs. Grant) 
Page, John H. 
Page, Margaret E. 
Payne, Mrs. Nettie C. 
Pelsue, Mrs. Frankie 
Perham, Addie L. 
Perkins, Gertrude L. 
Perkins, Harry V. 
Perry, Charles W. 
Perrv, Susan A. 

(Mrs. C. W.) 
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet W. 
Pierce, Emma L. 
Pierpoint, Annie E. 
Pond, Abbott S. 
Pratt, Mrs. Sarah G. 
Pratt, Jessie H. 

(Mrs. G. W.) 
Preston, Ellen O. 

(Mrs. Q. L.) 
Purdy, Harry T. 
Purdy, Helen T. 
Raymond, Ruby G. 

(Mrs. William) 
Reynolds, Pauline Mel). 

fMrs. (iuy H.) 
Reynolds, Harry B. 
Rice, George L. 



Admitted 




Admitted 


1857 


Rice, Jennie C. 


1891 


1911 


(Mrs. G. L.) 




1911 


Ripley, Thomas E. 


1882 




Ross, George W. 


1885 


1912 


Ross, Eleanor T. 


1868 


1880 


(Mrs. Z. E.) 




1885 


Sanford, Mrs. C. L. 


1899 


1878 


Schryver, Harriet K. 


1906 




Sears, Ella May 


1897 


1895 


Senton, Benjamin C. 


1890 




Shandof, Frederick 


1896 


1878 


Shandof, Cora D. 
(Mrs. Frederick) 


1896 


1895 


Shelburn, Harriet R. 


1894 


1902 


(Mrs. George) 




1887 


Sheldon, Charles A. 


1878 




Sheldon, Archie McD. 


1902 


1892 


Sheldon, Susan P, 


1883 


1898 


(Mrs. C. H.) 




1901 
1891 


Sheldon, Archie C. 


1904 


Sheldon, Mary H. 


1892 


(Mrs. A. 0.) 




1902 


Sherman, Minnie W. 


1884 


1902 


(Mrs. F. B.) 




1902 


Silliman, Helen C. 


1891 


1871 


Slack, Frank L. 


1887 


1873 


Slade, Mrs. E. S. 


1906 




Spafford, EllaL. 


1886 


1894 


(Mrs. H. W.) 




1898 


Spafford, Mattie E. 


1887 


1888 


Spafford, Henry W. 


1900 


1902 


Spaulding, Josephine A. 


1906 


1897 


(Mrs. George) 




1894 


Spauldine, Caroline A. R. 


1911 




Squier, Daniel VV. 


1S58 


1905 


Stanley, Zera D. 


1902 




Staples, Edward L. 


1906 


1895 


Staples, Ada M. 


1906 


1895 


(Mrs. E. L.) 




1898 


Staples, Mary V. 


1906 




Steele, Frederic Dorr 


1889 


1878 


Stewart, George W. 


1877 




Stewart, Helen A. 


1884 


1904 


Stewart, George W., Jr. 


1890 


1892 


Stillings, Mrs. Janet S. 


1885 



59 



Stinson, E. R. 
Stoddard, William E. 
Swinnerton, Arthur A. 
Swinnerton, George A. 
Tanner, Jennie E. 
Thomas, Julia B. 
Thomas, Marion 
Thompson, John W. 
Thompson, William H. 
Titcomb, John W. 
Titsworth, Fanny W. 

(Mrs. H. H.) 
Tuttle, Minnie B. 

(Mrs. F. Q.) 
Tuttle, Henry E. 
Vail, Charles B. 
Vail, Emma 

(Mrs. C. B.) 
Vail, Mrs. Maude G. 
Vail, Marcus E. 
Vail, Guy R. 
Varney, Margaret E. 

(Mrs. C. H.) 



itted 




Admitted 


1906 


Vaughn, Mrs. Ellen D. 


1865 


1878 


Ward, Edwin J. 


1881 


1902 


Washburn, Mrs. Mabel R. 


1896 


1909 


Washburn, Mrs. Mary E. 


1897 


1909 


Webster, Frank P. 


1884 


1908 


Wentworth, Mrs. Lena S. 


1892 


1908 


Wescott, Edna B. 


1907 


1881 


(Mrs. Coleman) 




1902 


Wheeler, Franklin S. 


1892 


1883 


Wheeler, Luie M. 


1880 


1899 


(Mrs. F. H ) 






Wilkins, Ellen L. 


1894 


1878 


Williams, John H. 


1909 




Williams, Harley G. 


1895 


1883 


Williams, George F. 


1878 


1878 


Williams, Helen M. 


1878 


1878 


(Mrs.J. W.) 






Wilson, Frederick 0. 


1909 


1896 


Wilson, Mary 


1909 


1886 


(Mrs. F. C.) 




1889 


Wilson, Erwin 


1909 


1907 


Wilson, Evelyn 


1909 



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